Hey all, This is probably something marketing folks could help with if they were so inclined. I also will do a short post on Fedora Magazine today about this. It's a great "hey, I use Fedora and can contribute with a very low barrier of entry" type thing. ----- Forwarded message from Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:24:45 +0100 From: Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: The final push for the application installer in Fedora 20 In GNOME Software, we show a list of applications for each category that we think are frikin’ awesome. Some have AppData[1], and some don’t. For the ones that don’t yet have AppData it leaves the responsibility of writing the long description to the Linux community, where we can push the data back to upstream so that all the distributions can benefit. So far we’ve had a superb reaction from lots of upstream projects and a lot of descriptions have been merged. For Fedora 20 we want all the awesome apps to have AppData, so users can evaluate the application before installing it. It would add a really nice bit of polish to the whole experience. If you can spare 5 minutes and want to help. I’ve got another shared document that just needs a few details for each application: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzJKpbiGX1zdElaYUoxcXRxeVRVS05Femg4Zzk2NWc#gid=0 The list of awesome-but-unloved apps is: audacity, ardour2, gnome-banshee, rosegarden, sound-juicer, doom, openarena, xonotic, tremulous, btanks, frozen-bubble, quadrapassel, neverball, gnomine, wesnoth, supertuxkart, redeclipse, lyx, gparted, virt-manager, eclipse, gitg, monodevelop, blender, shotwell, octave, saoimage, workrave, celestia, polari, pidgin, chromium, pitivi, vlc and openshot. If you want to add any other apps there, please feel free, although I would much prefer the AppData file to go upstream if you’re a contributor or maintainer of a project. Remember, we can’t feature applications on the front page that don’t have AppData, so that’s an added incentive. I’d love to expose more people to blender for instance. There’s no way I can do all this myself for Fedora 20, so I really need your help. Again. Thanks. Richard [1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct ----- End forwarded message ----- Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat jzb@xxxxxxxxxx | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
