Proposal: Drop applications that have FTBFS for the last two releases from the AppStream metadata

[Rex Dieter]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> The end result would be that we don't show applications that have
> failed the previous two releases mass rebuilds in GNOME Software i.e.
> we don't show f19 packages in f21, and we don't show f20 packages in
> f22. Should be pretty non-controversial, right? The kind of software
> that failed two rebuilds in a row really and is sitting unloved by the
> downstream maintainer isn't really the kind of software we want to
> show. They would still of course be installable on the command line
> using dnf.

What's the impact of implementing this, ie, how many applications will end 
up being removed?

As mentioned elsewhere, the distro already drops packages that fail to 
build, so I'm not sure how worthwhile doing it here too will be.

-- Rex