Proposal: Add Google Chrome repo to fedora-workstation-repositories

[Jiri Eischmann]

Hi everyone,
we've worked with Google to make sure that the way they ship Chrome
meets our requirements for third party software inclusion. Appdata file
which was the last missing piece is now shipped with the beta of the
next version, so I think it's time to propose the Workstation Working
Group that we add the Google Chrome repository to fedora-workstation-
repositories.

Reasoning: Google Chrome is the most popular web browser and perhaps
third party software Fedora users install the most and now we would
allow them to install it from a Fedora-curated list of 3rd party
software.

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Jiri

[Matthew Miller]

I'd really like to see the draft
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal
actually finished and a final version approved before we start 
implementation like this.


On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
>  we've worked with Google to make sure that the way they ship Chrome
>  meets our requirements for third party software inclusion. Appdata file
>  which was the last missing piece is now shipped with the beta of the
>  next version, so I think it's time to propose the Workstation Working
>  Group that we add the Google Chrome repository to fedora-workstation-
>  repositories.
>  
>  Reasoning: Google Chrome is the most popular web browser and perhaps
>  third party software Fedora users install the most and now we would
>  allow them to install it from a Fedora-curated list of 3rd party
>  software.
>  
>  cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
>  [google-chrome]
>  name=google-chrome
>  baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
>  enabled=1
>  gpgcheck=1
>  gpgkey=https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
>  
>  Jiri 


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[Jiri Eischmann]

Matthew Miller píše v St 31. 05. 2017 v 12:03 -0400:
>  I'd really like to see the draft
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_propo
>  sal
>  actually finished and a final version approved before we start 
>  implementation like this. 
That's up to the workstation working group to decide. By this proposal
I'm letting them know that Chrome will be soon ready to meet the
requirements stated in the current draft. I suppose they will review it
when they're ready which I assume includes the final version of the
guidelines.

Jiri


>  On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
>  > we've worked with Google to make sure that the way they ship Chrome
>  > meets our requirements for third party software inclusion. Appdata
>  > file
>  > which was the last missing piece is now shipped with the beta of
>  > the
>  > next version, so I think it's time to propose the Workstation
>  > Working
>  > Group that we add the Google Chrome repository to fedora-
>  > workstation-
>  > repositories.
>  > 
>  > Reasoning: Google Chrome is the most popular web browser and
>  > perhaps
>  > third party software Fedora users install the most and now we would
>  > allow them to install it from a Fedora-curated list of 3rd party
>  > software.
>  > 
>  > cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
>  > [google-chrome]
>  > name=google-chrome
>  > baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
>  > enabled=1
>  > gpgcheck=1
>  > gpgkey=https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
>  > 
>  > Jiri
>  
>  
>  
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>  
>  
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[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:36:38PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
>  > I'd really like to see the draft
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_propo
>  > sal actually finished and a final version approved before we start
>  > implementation like this.
>  That's up to the workstation working group to decide. By this proposal
>  I'm letting them know that Chrome will be soon ready to meet the
>  requirements stated in the current draft. I suppose they will review it
>  when they're ready which I assume includes the final version of the
>  guidelines. 
That's fair — I just don't want to hitch up the cart before we even
know if it's being drawn by horses. :)

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Christian Schaller]

Ok, so I went over the proposal today and tried to resolve the few remaining TBDs and
remove comment style comments. Hopefully it is now in a state where we can finalize it.

Christian



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> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:36:38PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > > I'd really like to see the draft
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_propo
> > > sal actually finished and a final version approved before we start
> > > implementation like this.
> > That's up to the workstation working group to decide. By this proposal
> > I'm letting them know that Chrome will be soon ready to meet the
> > requirements stated in the current draft. I suppose they will review it
> > when they're ready which I assume includes the final version of the
> > guidelines.
> 
> That's fair — I just don't want to hitch up the cart before we even
> know if it's being drawn by horses. :)
> 
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[Richard Hughes]

On 31 May 2017 at 16:20, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  ...and perhaps third party software Fedora users install the most
No perhaps about it, it's the #1 thing people install with
gnome-software even including all the free software we enable by
default. For instance, it's 50% more popular than gstreamer-openh264
and twice as popular as gimp...

Richard.

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>  No perhaps about it, it's the #1 thing people install with
>  gnome-software even including all the free software we enable by
>  default. For instance, it's 50% more popular than gstreamer-openh264
>  and twice as popular as gimp... 
Richard, do you have this data somewhere I could look at?

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader

[Richard Hughes]

On 31 May 2017 at 17:45, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Richard, do you have this data somewhere I could look at? 
Sure, I'll send it to you offlist as it's slightly sensitive.

Richard.