#5721: Need application icons and application descriptions

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#5721: Need application icons and application descriptions
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  Reporter:  rhughes          |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Alpha  |  Component:  other
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
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Comment (by rhughes):

 Replying to [comment:10 ausil]:
 > I'm currently on Australian Eastern Standard Time, 4PM GMT is 2AM for
 me. Sorry can't do.

 Okay, that's fair enough :) What about 2130 GMT?

 > Some issues, what you proposed as tooling is a really tiny piece of the
 picture.

 Sure, but a tiny part that allows the appdata to stay up to date.

 > if you want the data on the mirrors along with the rest of the metadata
 the generation needs to be integrated into createrepo.

 The only change I see needed to createrepo would be to cat all the
 -icon.tar files together and also to xmlmerge the new .xml files then gzip
 two extra files.

 > you would need some way to get access to the icons and images as I
 really don't want to add that much extra data into the mirrors.

 The -icons.tar and .xml file would be just two extra files from the koji
 job, just like the rpms, or the log files.

 > which puts us back to a webapp for it, which then opens up a webstore,
 and being able to add a app to all your systems etc.

 A webstore is not in scope, and we don't support this multi-system model.
 If you want to do that kind of thing you should be using satellite or RHN.
 There are a whole host of sticky problems with doing a web store like
 having to upload your package lists to a remote server and having to
 depsolve on the remote host which made this model impossible. The privacy,
 security and hosting requirements are prohibitive and not what we're going
 to do.

 > I really think it needs to be on the roadmap.

 There is not going to be a webapp from the GNOME team, we've designed and
 built a local fat-client for a local system. Either we work together and
 host this on the Fedora infrastructure, or we'll have to do something
 different that doesn't involve Fedora.

 Richard.

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