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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines
From:       Adam Szopa <adam.szopa () kde ! org>
Date:       2024-04-12 12:35:10
Message-ID: e6ba0d9f-830e-4eb4-b014-94b2681e6db7 () kde ! org
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Hi,

I'm happy to help. Looks like you have a phabricator ticket, would a 
dedicated board make more sense to track this? It would add granularity 
to the tasks, instead of having a one huge checklist in a single task.

This sounds like something well aligned with one of the previous KDE 
Goals, "All about the Apps". Perhaps we can use it's matrix channel 
(https://matrix.to/#/#kde-all-about-apps:kde.org) to coordinate and find 
more people to help with this?


- Adam

W dniu 11.04.2024 o  21:36, Paul Brown pisze:
> On Thursday 11 April 2024 20:38:19 CEST Andy B wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> Dear Fellow Community Members,
>>>>>
>>>>> FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has
>>>>> issued
>>>>> guidelines to help project maintainers adapt the look and descriptions
>>> of
>>>
>>>>> their apps to FlatHub's new design and layout:
>>> https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-> > >
>>>
>>>> guidelines/
>>>>
>>>>> Not that these are **guidelines**, not **rules**. Apps that do not
>>> adapt
>>>
>>>>> will
>>>>> not be removed or penalised, except they may just not show up on the
>>> front
>>>
>>>>> page, as they would not fit in the aesthetic FlatHub is looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have started a task here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://phabricator.kde.org/T17275
>>>>>
>>>>> and we are calling on app maintainers and any other contributor with a
>>>>> developer account to help us update apps distributed via FlatHub.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you would like to lend a hand, subscribe to the task, read the
>>> report
>>>
>>>>> for
>>>>> each app supplied by FlatHub, and help us bring them up to date.
>>>> Thank you for making us aware of this change. I wanted to ask that we
>>> work
>>>
>>>> closely together with the VDG designers to help in this process. If you
>>>> can't get the original authors or app maintainers in the work, or even
>>>> if
>>>> you do, we can help adapt the icons to the standards required when it
>>> comes
>>>
>>>> to graphics.
>>> That would be great! What do you suggest? What other ML do you think we
>>> should
>>> crosspost this to? Maybe you can post and coordinate things in the VDG
>>> Matrix/
>>> Telegram channels.
>>>
>>> Also please feel free to add stuff to the task. Maybe add VDG-specific
>>> tasks to
>>> the TODO list so we can all keep track.
>> Probably like this:
>>
>> 1. We want to understand if any of our Flathub apps are already in
>> compliance vs others that are not. We focus on the ones that need fixing.
> We got a very comprehensive list of problems on the task, but here it is as
> well:
>
> https://carlschwan.eu/appdata/
>
>> 2. Check with a maintainer or person responsible for the app to see how
>> they could meet the criteria.
>> 3. Determine who will do the work, if needed
> We have a list of (very basic) TODOs on the task. Anybody can come in, do one
> or two, and then move out. Most of the TODOs require changing a line or two in
> a text file. Very junior-job like stuff.
>
> Agreed that for more complex jobs, like re-designing icons and stuff, would
> require more planning.
>
>> 4. Work with the VDG when all other steps are not possible
>>
>> I realize this is a bit of a project, would Adam Szopa be available to
>> coordinate some of this?
> Added to CC. Let's see what he can tell us. And Ingo? He's the app store
> engineer person. Surely this would be in his field of expertise.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
>
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