Re: Missing font information at wiki
by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:05:10PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> 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 get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be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...?
Yeah, that'd be absolutely great.
It seems that this would require two steps: first a service which
exports the appdata information on the web somewhere in standarized
format, and then code in fedora-packages to display that information.
(The reason why fedora-packages cannot do this directly is that
appdata information can only be reliably extracted from the final rpm,
and that's a slow operation). I cc'd recent fedora-packages contributors,
maybe they can provide more info.
Zbyszek
> [1]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/
