On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:34:35PM +0000, Will Crawford wrote:
> On 23 November 2017 at 13:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> [...]
> > I think we should consider getting rid of this requirement. Updating
> > wiki pages is quite a bit of work, and we have better mechanisms to
> > advertise stuff to users that didn't exist a few years ago. Apart from
> > the manual effort, the problem with wiki pages is that they tend to
> > get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be
> > really trustworthy. Instead, I think it'd be better to spend the
> > effort on making gnome software support fonts even better and to improve
> > the appdata files for fonts to make them "shine" in gnome-software.
> > This would be
> >
> > a) less effort (a few minutes to create an appdata file when initially
> > packaging the font, very little ongoing effort, metadata is automatically
> > updated on package updates),
> >
> > b) actually more useful for users (you get a live list, click
"install"
> > on the font you like, instead of going from a wiki page to the command
> > line).
>
> There are still some dinosaurs who don't use GNOME.
>
> Maybe some mechanisms that aren't dependent on that would be good?
I'd try to write a page generator that'd turn appdata files into
html. Might be useful for more than fonts. That doesn't even seem
like that much work, to write such a script and have it run once a
week and update the html for all updated packages and push it out to
a server somewhere.
It'd be nice to integrate this into our package/software search
system[1]. That way the information returned is richer and more
useful...
Also, I wonder why
packages.fedoraproject.org doesn't already point to this...?
[1]:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/
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