From kde-devel Wed Jan 31 07:49:55 2024 From: Ben Cooksley Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:49:55 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Defining a developer name for our applications metadata Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=170668734610444 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--000000000000b3c4e0061039201a" --000000000000b3c4e0061039201a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 7:04=E2=80=AFAM Timoth=C3=A9e Ravier wrote: > Hi folks, > > Flathub is now requiring that applications define a "developer_name" tag > in their metadata (see [1], [2]). > > What do folks think would be a good value for our application there? > > Based on the suggestion in the documentation [3], I started making PRs [4= ] > [5] [6] [7] for our KDE Apps with "The KDE Community" as the > "developer_name" tag. > Wait, so Flathub has begun requiring an older tag that the Appstream developers have deprecated? So we need to add tags to our metadata that are already deprecated and which are going to result in future failures of our own unit tests when upstream pulls the plug on developer_name as a tag and makes it a warning deprecation rather than an information deprecation? > I'm open to suggestions. > > Thanks, > Cheers, Ben > > [1] > https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/#name-su= mmary-and-developer-name > [2] > https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/linter/#appstream-missing-d= eveloper-name > [3] > https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-de= veloper > [4] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249 > [5] https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708 > [6] https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465 > [7] https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531 > > -- > > Timoth=C3=A9e Ravier > > CoreOS co-Team Lead > > Red Hat > > travier@redhat.com > > --000000000000b3c4e0061039201a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 7:04=E2=80=AFAM T= imoth=C3=A9e Ravier <travier@redha= t.com> wrote:
Hi folks,

<= div>Flathub is now requiring that applications define a "developer_nam= e" tag in their metadata (see [1], [2]).

What= do folks think would be a good value for our application there?
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Based on the suggestion in the documentation [3], I started = making PRs [4] [5] [6] [7] for our KDE Apps with "The KDE Community&qu= ot; as the "developer_name" tag.
Wait, so Flathub has begun requiring an older tag that the Apps= tream developers have deprecated?

So we need to ad= d tags to our metadata that are already deprecated=C2=A0and which are going= to result in future failures of our own unit tests when upstream pulls the= plug on developer_name as a tag and makes it a warning deprecation rather = than an information deprecation?


I'm op= en to suggestions.

Thanks,

Cheers,
Ben
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