[Mageia-dev] Dev Team Call To Action...

Fri Jan 28 01:59:15 CET 2011

Op donderdag 27 januari 2011 23:38:36 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 01:17:26, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> >  - mageia would then package AppStream in the distro. (Nothing is being
+> > 
+> > said as being used by default: Note that AppStream only does
+> > Applications, while eg: rpmdrake installs packages).
+> 
+> Note that "AppStream" is not the name of a piece of software, but the
+> codename for a project that relies on various components (packagekit, OCS,
+> applications metadata...). We *may* use the Ubuntu Software Center (which
+> should be using packagekit as a back-end instead of apt soon, hopefully),
+> but we could also choose to develop our own Software Center or improve
+> existing tools (though it would probably require a lot of work).
+
+I just hope we can have an AppInstaller that is called something without any 
+distro's name in it. :-)
+
+> > So this leaves:
+> >  - PHP for mageia-app-db
+> 
+> For mageia-app-db, we can use help on various subjects
+> (internationalization of the application from a technical point of view,
+> security audit, UI design...). However I don't want to "steal" work forces
+> from the rest of the Mageia project. There's no urgence right now on
+> mageia-app-db side, I think. However, any help is welcome !
+> 
+> Samuel
+
+For packagekit support, basically, there's a feature matrix that needs to be 
+completed:
+http://packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
+
+so, a feature should be implemented on both urpmi side and packagekit side
+( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/tree/backends/urpmi/helpers )
+
+the way i see it we need:
+ - DownloadPackages
+ - InstallFiles
+ - WhatProvides
+ - (possibly simulate option)
+
+and these filters:
+ - Free
+ - Arch
+
+(i don't think all features in the matrix apply, but then i don't know that 
+much about it.)
+