[Mageia-dev] AppStream project

Wed Feb 2 22:58:16 CET 2011

Hi, 
+
+As promised last week during the packagers meeting, here is a wiki page 
+dedicated to the AppStream project.
+
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=appstream
+
+Please take a look at the list of "things to do", maybe there's something some 
+of us can work on ?
+
+Here is a an extract :
+===================================================
+Tasks that can already start
+    * improve packagekit's urpmi back-end (see the feature matrix : 
+http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html)
+    * begin work on making the Ubuntu Software Center work on mageia, with 
+Michaël Vogt's (main developer of the USC) and Richard Hugues' (packagekit) 
+help
+    * start creating the appdata.xml files in repositories, based on metadata 
+extracted from the .desktop files. It won't be complete yet but it would be 
+useful to have the production chain already in place, and mageia-app-db could 
+use this information to differentiate applications from other packages (it's 
+based on a fixed list at the moment). See 
+http://gitorious.org/appstream/resources/blobs/master/appdata.xsd
+    * adapt urpmi so that it downloads those metadata on the client system 
+when adding or updating media
+===================================================
+
+The metadata part (appdata.xml) is one of the most important things. All 
+distributions present at the Nuremberg meeting agreed to try to have the chain 
+of production and the appdata.xml file produced in the next 2 or 3 months. It 
+would be great if we did it in time (yeah, I know, we also have a distribution 
+to build :)). And as a side benefit, I could use the information contained in 
+the appdata.xml file in mageia-app-db :)
+
+Cheers
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+