On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:34:35PM +0000, Will Crawford wrote: >> On 23 November 2017 at 13:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek >> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [...] >> > I think we should consider getting rid of this requirement. Updating >> > wiki pages is quite a bit of work, and we have better mechanisms to >> > advertise stuff to users that didn't exist a few years ago. Apart from >> > the manual effort, the problem with wiki pages is that they tend to >> > get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be >> > really trustworthy. Instead, I think it'd be better to spend the >> > effort on making gnome software support fonts even better and to improve >> > the appdata files for fonts to make them "shine" in gnome-software. >> > This would be >> > >> > a) less effort (a few minutes to create an appdata file when initially >> > packaging the font, very little ongoing effort, metadata is automatically >> > updated on package updates), >> > >> > b) actually more useful for users (you get a live list, click "install" >> > on the font you like, instead of going from a wiki page to the command >> > line). >> >> There are still some dinosaurs who don't use GNOME. >> >> Maybe some mechanisms that aren't dependent on that would be good? > > I'd try to write a page generator that'd turn appdata files into > html. Might be useful for more than fonts. That doesn't even seem > like that much work, to write such a script and have it run once a > week and update the html for all updated packages and push it out to > a server somewhere. > It'd be nice to integrate this into our package/software search system[1]. That way the information returned is richer and more useful... Also, I wonder why packages.fedoraproject.org doesn't already point to this...? [1]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
