Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/23/2014 08:07 AM, David Tardon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:37:07PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 01/22/2014 03:47 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> On 22 January 2014 12:09, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> That's a long way from what I'd like to see, but it's going up at about 1% per
>>>>> month, which is encouraging.
>>> Replying to my own email, apologies. I've now gone through the entire
>>> list of applications-in-fedora-without-appdata. A*lot*  of those
>>> applications haven't seen an upstream release in half a decade, some
>>> over a decade. I would estimate that 40% of all the apps in Fedora are
>>> dead or semi-dead upstream. Excluding the KDE/XFCE/LXDE applications,
>>> I'd say we had a 70% completion of the applications I'd like to see in
>>> the software center. I've filed a lot of upstream bugs in the last two
>>> hours, so hopefully that's another few percent sorted.
>> I wished we could simply just clean those bits out of our
>> distribution because quite frankly we have 14+k components in the
>> distribution and not nearly enough manpower to cover that all.
> You seem to be operating under a delusion that, if someone's package is
> forcibly dropped, (s)he will automatically seek comaintainership of
> another package "to fill the vacuum". That is not very likely. What is
> likely, however, is that (s)he will become angered, orphan the rest of
> his/her packages and disappear.

I was operating under the *assumption* that the package was not being 
maintained as Richard said here...
"A*lot* of those applications haven't seen an upstream release in half a 
decade"
Which poses security risk and bugs not being dealt and bad end user 
experience if our end user base chooses to install it.
( because if they were actually being maintained here with us those 
fixes would have found it's way upstream and new releases been made 
right ).

But clearly you dont understand that.

JBG