On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:05:10PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:34:35PM +0000, Will Crawford wrote:
>> On 23 November 2017 at 13:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I think we should consider getting rid of this requirement. Updating
>> > wiki pages is quite a bit of work, and we have better mechanisms to
>> > advertise stuff to users that didn't exist a few years ago. Apart from
>> > the manual effort, the problem with wiki pages is that they tend to
>> > get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be
>> > really trustworthy. Instead, I think it'd be better to spend the
>> > effort on making gnome software support fonts even better and to improve
>> > the appdata files for fonts to make them "shine" in
gnome-software.
>> > This would be
>> >
>> > a) less effort (a few minutes to create an appdata file when initially
>> > packaging the font, very little ongoing effort, metadata is automatically
>> > updated on package updates),
>> >
>> > b) actually more useful for users (you get a live list, click
"install"
>> > on the font you like, instead of going from a wiki page to the command
>> > line).
>>
>> There are still some dinosaurs who don't use GNOME.
>>
>> Maybe some mechanisms that aren't dependent on that would be good?
>
> I'd try to write a page generator that'd turn appdata files into
> html. Might be useful for more than fonts. That doesn't even seem
> like that much work, to write such a script and have it run once a
> week and update the html for all updated packages and push it out to
> a server somewhere.
>
It'd be nice to integrate this into our package/software search
system[1]. That way the information returned is richer and more
useful...
Also, I wonder why
packages.fedoraproject.org doesn't already point to this...?
Yeah, that'd be absolutely great.
It seems that this would require two steps: first a service which
exports the appdata information on the web somewhere in standarized
format, and then code in fedora-packages to display that information.
(The reason why fedora-packages cannot do this directly is that
appdata information can only be reliably extracted from the final rpm,
and that's a slow operation). I cc'd recent fedora-packages contributors,
maybe they can provide more info.
Zbyszek
> [1]:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/