<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello RPM Fusion developers.<br><br></div>I'm interested in adding AppData metadata for RPM Fusion.<br></div>This will make RPMFusion apps look better in gnome-software (the default app installer in Fedora) and greatly improve our user experience. RPM Fusion apps will be easily discoverable by users and will get more exposure. Users will no longer need to use a command line to install VLC, for example.<br>
<br></div><div>The AppData metadata includes simple XML files with app descriptions, and a tarball of app icons.<br></div><div>They can be distributed in the rpmfusion-free-release and rpmfusion-nonfree-release packages and will only add a couple more megabytes. <br>
<br>They can also be distributed in a different package (that would be pulled by a comps group like RPM Fusion already does for certain codecs), but the user experience will suffer because the users need to run an update to get the metadata.<br>
<br></div><div>The generated metadata can also contain screenshots, but those are not installed on the user's computer but rather pulled from a web server.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm willing to help to get RPM Fusion to have application metadata, but I'm unfamiliar with the rpmfusion infrastructure and workflows, so I'll need help with someone who is familiar with rpmfusion more.<br>
<br><br></div><div>So, what do you say? Do you want RPM Fusion to have AppData metadata?<br></div><div><br></div>More info:<br><a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/">http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/</a><br>
<br>Code:<br><a href="https://github.com/hughsie/createrepo_as">https://github.com/hughsie/createrepo_as</a><br><a href="https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/">https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/</a><br><a href="https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools">https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools</a><br>
<a href="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/appstream-data.git/tree/appstream-data.spec?h=f21">http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/appstream-data.git/tree/appstream-data.spec?h=f21</a><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><br>
-- <br><div dir="ltr">-Elad Alfassa.</div>
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