For three days last week I attended a conference on application installing in Germany, hosted by Vincent Untz and the other guys from Novell. There were people sent from Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Mandriva. From Fedora both I and Florian Festi attended. The idea of the conference was to talk about defining some APIs we can share, to discuss interchange formats, and talking to the UI designers to make installing and removing software on Linux suck less. We've put a few detailed documents with architecture plan here: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream and Vincent has also uploaded all the notes from the meeting to the same location. I've got a more detailed overview on my blog too: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2011/01/24/application-installer-miniconf-trip-report/ For more information still, there was a presentation we gave at the end of the conference, and can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHeP2ZBwS_U -- it's nearly an hour and gets pretty technical, so get coffee if you click the video. Comments welcome. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
