Hi again!
First, apologies for the direct email. I'm emailing you directly as you've been
listed as the update contact in one or more AppData files.
We've been busy building an awesome software center, and we've been adding more
and more metadata fields that upstream authors can set. The software center is
now being used in Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian and Arch, with many millions
of happy users.
Some of the newest features include a way to make it easy for translators to
contribute new translations of your applications by specifying a URL in the
libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml libreoffice-base.appdata.xml
libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml
libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml AppData file that tells them where to start
looking. This can be specified by adding:
http://the-web-site-with-translation-instructions/
Another useful tag to add is to tell end-users where to donate, for instance:
http://www.gnome.org/friends/
If it's been some time since you updated the AppData file (and hey, you've got
an app to write!) you can get add the latest metadata fields by doing
`appstream-util upgrade libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml
libreoffice-base.appdata.xml libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml
libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml` and then
replacing any FIXMEs in the file with actual data. We'll be putting more
functionality into the software center in the future that uses this extra data,
but we need more upstream software to opt-in before we can enable features, for
instance, providing a button for users to donate to specific apps.
You can also use `appstream-util validate-relax` on your AppData file to check
the various fields meet our style guidelines. If you disagree with any of the
validation warnings, please let me know!
Of course, you don't have to do a release with these enhancements straight
away, and if you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport this
as well if it does not add translated strings or you have no string freeze
policy.
When you've changed the file(s) and committed, please email me back and I'll
mark your application as completed. If you don't want to hear from me ever
again just edit the in the AppData file and change it to
somebody else. I'm not planning on emailing more than once every 6 months, so
don't worry about me spamming you with even more work to do.
Thanks,
Richard
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