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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] a cross-distribution meeting about software installers</H1>
<B>Remy CLOUARD</B>
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<PRE>On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:16:00PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
><i> Hi,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Vincent Untz from Novell, who works on openSuse, invited us (and contributers
</I>><i> from other distributions, including Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu) to participate
</I>><i> in a meeting about software installers and the end-user experience.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Here is how Vincent presents the project :
</I>><i>
</I>><i> ----- Quote -----
</I>><i> *** Goals ***
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Blue-sky goals:
</I>><i> * agree on a common UI to install applications
</I>><i> * agree on what metadata to use, how to generate it, where to host it
</I>><i> * agree on a protocol to use to provide non-static metadata (featured
</I>><i> apps, ratings, comments, etc.)
</I>><i> * decide what metadata can be shared between distros, and what should stay
</I>><i> distro-specific (eg: do we want user comments to be shared?)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In reality, if it turns out we can't all agree on one item, it's still fine: it
</I>><i> doesn't mean we can't collaborate on the other items. And some distros might
</I>><i> still work together.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's worth mentioning here that what matters to us is the end-user experience.
</I>><i> It matters more than the technical implementation.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> *** Background ***
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Nearly all distributions are slowly moving towards making it easier to deal
</I>><i> with applications, and get information about those. The Ubuntu Software Center
</I>><i> is a good example of work being done here.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> At the moment, many of us are working in our own corners, while we could
</I>><i> certainly all move much faster if we worked together, especially since we're
</I>><i> all targetting mostly the same result.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We do want content to be provided not just by us, distributors, but also by
</I>><i> the users: their experience with an application can inspire other users to
</I>><i> install it too.
</I>><i> The goals of this meeting is to see what can be put in common and harmonized
</I>><i> between various distributions, from the end-user point of view.
</I>><i> ----- End of quote -----
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The meeting will occur in Nürnberg, Germany from January 19th to 21st
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We don't know yet what the outcome of this 3-days meeting will be, but it may
</I>><i> be a great opportunity.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For the mageia side, the participants will be :
</I>><i> - Michael Scherer (misc)
</I>><i> - Olivier Thauvin (Nanar), author of Sophie, the cross-distribution RPM
</I>><i> database,
</I>><i> - Samuel Verschelde (Stormi), for the mageia-app-db project.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Best regards
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde
</I>Great !
This sounds like a very good idea, such a move would be great to improve
interaction between distributions and divide the needed effort to
produce for each distribution.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m sorry the schedule is a bit too tight for
me, I won’t be able to attend this meeting. Besides, the cost of the
ticket won’t make it possible either.
I’m eager to know what will come out of this meeting, have a good trip !
:<i>-)
</I>
Regards,
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