Fedora board vote and way forward

[Christian Schaller]

Haven't tried spotify in a long while, but yes I do seem to remember they only ship a deb currently.
Skype are shipping an RPM still. Of course we have no guarantee they will continue doing so, which was part of 
what we where hoping to do here. By offering the inclusion in the software center we could have used that to try to ensure vedors keep
supporting Fedora or start supporting Fedora.

As for making it easy to package software, isn't that what the LinuxApps plan is all about?

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:15:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora board vote and way forward
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > My take away from the discussion so far is that the current board would not
> > accept
> > anything that 'automates' access to such external software. Doesn't matter
> > if
> > we ship
> > the metadata on the ISO or not.
> > 
> > The only thing that I can see flying with the current board is a system
> > that
> > is 'blind' to what it is offering, just like
> > a web browser.
> 
> How is that a better solution than making it easier to add new repositories
> through
> the web browser? Or through a URL copy/paste in the software center?
> 
> My naive approach would be to:
> - allow repositories to be defined by a single URL (this is what third-party
> repositories
>   for Synology, iOS jailbreak, Cyanogen, etc. use)
> - use a custom scheme in the software center to pass those URLs, eg.
>     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org/my-stable-repo
>   or even defining multiple repos with a single URL:
>     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org
>   The software center can now show you the list of repositories offered by
>   this URL
> - Convince repo maintainers to add those URLs to web pages
> 
> One-click in the web browser, confirm in Software center. It also works for
> both
> proprietary repos and free software restricted ones. The user can find out
> about the
> repos through the existing page, that could be linked from the Software
> center as well:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories
> 
> Having said that, I don't think this is the blocker problem for most users.
> They know how
> to find the repositories they need ("fedora rpm nvidia" in Google?), the
> problem is
> providing making it easy for developers to package their wares for Fedora.
> 
> Have you recently tried to install Skype or Spotify on a Fedora machine? It's
> all about
> running alien (in the same way that Debian users ran alien 10 years ago to
> convert
> proprietary RPMs to debs).
> 
> Hashing out application bundles and making sure that whatever gets selected
> also works
> on Ubuntu would be the best way to convince the makers of those products to
> ship them
> in a format that Fedora can understand and install.
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