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Subject: Re: web server for appstream metadata screenshots
From: Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date: 2016-06-13 12:07:30
Message-ID: 2331199.0muthWM5dY () zazzy
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On Monday, June 13, 2016 02:03:35 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Thanks all for the input!
>
> On woensdag 8 juni 2016 13:46:17 CEST Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > > I've been adding appstream metadata to one of the apps I maintain, among
> > > that are also screenshots, in the form of a URL. That means that I have to
> > > put the screenshots on a webserver.
> > >
> > > Do we already have a canonical location for these screenshots?
> >
> > Scripty tracks 93 appdata files in trunk kf5
> >
> > 65 of these appdata files have a png on http://kde.org/images/screenshots/
> >
> > These pngs are also used for https://www.kde.org/applications/
> >
> > Means you have only one source for the app screenshot and don't need to
> > sync two locations
>
> I've done that now for Cuttlefish.
>
> The obvious problem with that is that it needs interaction from someone with
> commit rights to the website, so we created a gatekeeper here in the space
> that should be under the control of the app developer.
>
> In practice, that means, that less app devs will provide screenshots with
> their appstream metadata, and appstream adoption is not quite excellent to
> begin with.
>
I'm not 100% sure of all the requirements for the web server you are after
but we could put the EBN machine to use for this?
we could even make a foo.kde.org vhost if we wanted?
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