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:
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> 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 get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be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.
Zbyszek