Re: Let's write metadata about add-ons

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On 12/21/2015 05:36 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Hi, due to previous efforts we have a pretty good appdata coverage 
> of apps themselves, but add-ons (plugins, extensions,...) lag far 
> behind. There are dozens of useful GUI app add-ons in Fedora 
> repositories which don't have metadata files and are not exposed to
> users in GNOME Software. Let's focus on them.
> 
> The goal of this iniciative is to have a metadata file for every 
> useful add-on (for a GUI app) that is in Fedora repositories, so 
> that those add-ons appear in app profiles in Software and are 
> easily discoverable and installable for users.
> 
> For more information visit 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AddonAppdata

I'd love to see more people attempting this. I started on a few of
these a while ago, but got disheartened when I got responses like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267628#c2 when I provided
patches.

Richard, is there any way we can carry metadata like this outside of
the actual SRPM when maintainers are unwilling to accept the metadata
in their package?
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