F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> = Proposed Self Contained Change: Application Installer =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller
>

> == Scope ==
> Other developers:
> * Use gnome-software instead of gpk-update-viewer when dealing with updates in
> gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell and gnome-control-center
>
> Release engineering:
> * Make metadata available for packaged applications in Fedora (screenshots,
> icons, ratings,...). Not all of this needs to be in place for F20
>
> Policies and guidelines:
> * No immediate changes needed; longer-term, we probably want to make changes
> to way applications are distributed and installed
> * The update experience will also benefit from proposed changes to batch
> updates

(There's a first time for everything...)
<FESCo>
This Change affects other parts of the distribution (rel-eng,
policies?) and should therefore be treated as a "system-wide change",
not "self-contained".
</FESCo>
    Mirek