AppData additions required for the software center
- From: "Richard Hughes (semi-automated)" <autohughski gmail com>
- To: <gnumeric-list gnome org>
- Subject: AppData additions required for the software center
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
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 gnumeric.appdata.xml AppData file that tells them where to start
looking. This can be specified by adding:
<url type="translate">http://the-web-site-with-translation-instructions/</url>
Another useful tag to add is to tell end-users where to donate, for instance:
<url type="donation">http://www.gnome.org/friends/</url>
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 gnumeric.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 <update_contact> 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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