Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
: distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Results of the App Installer Meeting Hi all, The cross-distro App Installer Meeting that was announced a few weeks ago took place last week. It was a very productive meeting, with people from Debian, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE and Ubuntu attending. We

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, thanks for the report and the fine work which the report is basing upon. A view remarks: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13:38PM +1000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > We do not want the end users we target here to > have to learn about packages: they already know what an application is, > and this is

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: > "Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!?" > Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. IMHO this do

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 27.01.2011 13:45, schrieb Andreas Tille: >> If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: >> "Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!?" >> Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. > > IMHO this does show two

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:45, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: >> "Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!?" >> Other distributions seem to hav

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-29 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
On 01/27/2011 06:07 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: I am thinking of the AppStream project therefore as a big experiment to work together and I have the strong hope that we can find more places where we can work on together instead of against each other. Agreed. And if you see we were able to com

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13:38PM +1000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > JFYI. > > Debian has been represented at the meeting by Enrico Zini (who has > blogged about various aspects of the meeting as well [1,2,3]) and David > Kalnischkies. In the end, quite some pieces of Debian technologies have > a