Re: [kde-community] Our new project metadata system

2016-04-01 Thread Aleix Pol
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 1 April 2016 at 17:58, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> On Freitag, 1. April 2016 21:54:10 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: >> >>> Out of curiosity, how are the Appstream files accessed by tools such >>> as the

Re: [kde-community] Our new project metadata system

2016-04-01 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Freitag, 1. April 2016 21:54:10 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Out of curiosity, how are the Appstream files accessed by tools such > as the various app centers? > I presume some kind of repository exists? Nope, actually distributions extract the appstream data from the source code of each

Re: [kde-community] Our new project metadata system

2016-04-01 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Hi! > > Just adding my 2ct as AppStream maintainer: > > - Centralizing AppStream metadata is IMHO a really bad idea, since it > makes the life of people wanting to change or update it much harder, > leading to fewer