Action Items

Next steps / Timeline

• [DONE] (step -1 : save the piratepads somewhere :))
• Step 0 (next week)
  • Get infrastructure for development (wiki, mailing list, git) => fd.o * subscribe to mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions * [DONE] wiki: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/ * bugzilla: product on http://bugs.freedesktop.org [vuntz to create it if needed] * [DONE] git repo: gitorious.org
  • [DONE] Draw the big picture [hughsie]
  • [DONE] xml schema for the metadata format (hughsie)
• First step: end-of-march
  • Update desktop entry spec for new fields [vuntz]
  • Push new fields in .desktop upstream [all]
  • Getting the metadata published by distros [Debian: ?, Fedora: ?, Mageia: misc+samuel?, openSUSE: ?, Ubuntu: ? Can do it on http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ for testing (Nanar)]
  • Create desktop-xml-to-xapian musher (mvo :-)
  • Get up to date xapian in all distros
  • Implement the OCS changes described below (Frank)
  • Move USC to using PackageKit rather than leaking apt stuff (mvo,vuntz)
  • CLA topic clarified
  • How to validate: * USC works on openSUSE * USC works on Fedora (hughsie) * 10% of desktop files have extra metadata * distros are adding metadata back upstream (packagers) * USC can display the metadata * resolution on CLA (mvo)
• Second step: end-of-june
  • Publish specification for the metadata format
  • Setup distros OCS servers
  • Use OCS in USC
  • Put test data in OCS servers
  • Getting screenshots.debian.net to have symlinks for appid
  • How to validate: * screenshots working on other distros in USC * test data from OCS visible in USC
• End Goal: november
  • Distros releasing at the end of 2011 have all that * Hopefully with OCS data * Hopefully with suggestions

Big untriaged list of action items

This is a list of action items organized by topics. Most of them have been integrated in the timeline above.

List, for each metadata item

• is it available offline / online ? (essential vs nice to have)
• where it comes from (desktop file, user-provided...)
• if it's translated, and how

• if it's the same for all distributions or has to be tagged by origin Communication

• share meeting results

  • FOSDEM talk (vuntz)
  • wiki
  • write a short "why this project is for your distribution" text ?
• "sell" the project to our distributions/managers (hughsie, vuntz)
• "sell" it to other distributions

• "sell" it upstream Desktop Files (vuntz,hughsie)

• Add extra items to .desktop item specification

• Add Homepage
  • a package can contain more than one application, e.g. openoffice-writer and presenter
• Add Keywords
  • So gimp.desktop can contain "photoshop"
• Add !OnlyShowIn/!?NotShowIn item for !AppStore/!?SoftwareCenter
• Enhances=firefox.desktop [comma seporated list] for firefox plugins (AddonTo, Extends,... pick one)

• Fix categories to be sane, so they could be used as tags too

  • Add new categories
  • Deprecate old useless ones
  • Fix the issue with secondary categories requiring a main category, and you end up with two main categories because you're too explicit when listing secondary ones
  • etc.
  • We'll use Categories by default, and if an override is needed, use AppCategory? Software Center

• Write PackageKit backend [vuntz/mvo]

• improve distro abstractions (pkginfo provider instead of apt cache) including strings like Ubuntu Software Center [mvo]
• ask people to review ubuntu cla [mvo,vuntz]
• write OCS ratings/reviews backend

• add support for appdata.xml in update-softare-center.py [mvo] OCS

• {spam} for comments/inappropriate comments (Frank)

• Merge the new requirements into an OCS version 1.7 draft (Frank)
• Do a tagging module (Frank)
• Discuss and agree on OCS 1.7 on ocs@freedesktop.org (Frank)
• Provide a testing Server for development (Frank)

• Do an OCS 2.0 meeting (Frank) Screenshot

• screenshot.debian.net should use application id as a key, even if it's a symlink Translations

• Define translations workflow for applications descriptions Packaging (misc,Nanar)

• rpmlint/lintian: have some checks to make sure the .desktop metadata (Url, Enhances, etc.) is also in the package metadata

• automatically add a Provides for each .desktop file Metadata format

• Create a spec on xdg (can help: vuntz)

• Create a reference implementation

  • create a fedora implementation in icky python (hughsie) Matching package data (enrico)

• source<->source (via upstream URLs -- or something else ;-))

• binary<->binary (via .desktop files, regexps on package names)
• work at http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/distromatch.git
• datasets at http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dist-info.tar.gz
• Other attempts:
  • http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap
  • http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373
  • https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches
  • http://packages.debian.org/sid/whohas

• Use cases

  • falling back to other distros for missing data like categories and screenshots
  • accessing ratings and comments
  • finding patches from other distros
  • linking BTSes
  • cross-distro, googlable application index Building a Xapian index for non-debian distros (enrico)

• bringing debtags across after a rough binary package matching [prototype done: http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/distromatch/ now it needs to be deployed with regular updates]

• Build a Xapian index on your distro

• run Enrico's faceted prototype (http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/pkgshelf/) on other distro data Klik (vuntz)

• talk to alexl about klik

  • see http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/07/experiments-with-runtime-less-app-bundles/ (side things) (enrico)

• Deploying apt-file fast server-side index for other distros http://dde.debian.net/dde/q/aptfile/all/bin/mc

• web-based application browsing (mageia-app-db project) (Samuel)

  • http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki
  • are there other distributions than Mageia and Mandriva interested in this app ?
  • deploy one test instance per RPM distribution * fedora * opensuse
  • make it usable with DEB repos too (currently only RPM) : depending on debian/ubuntu interest in it.
  • use xapian index to speed things up
  • flag packages as applications based on .desktop files and provide "application-only" views
  • use "strong" and "weak" suggests dependencies to group applications and add-ons together
  • map from distributions package names to names in screenshots.debian.net, until we have the screenshots provided by OCS servers
  • one click install
  • tags support (read-only to begin with)
  • use OCS servers as soon as they are available (read-only to begin with) Debtags links

• Pointers to the data: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/ Misc

• http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/pkgshelf.git (the prototype xapian based appstoreything put together in 2 hours that I demoed the first day [enrico])