On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 16:20 +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > We could just say "try to keep a reasonable size, not more than a page of > text", and then it will depend on the application and who contributes the > description (which we still don't know :)) >
The above will be an issue for however this content is going to be created. If it is going to be by-users then there is going to be a bunch of junk in there, almost w/o a doubt. If one of the goals of the app-stream metadata is to have a bit of 'curation' of the offerings of any given repo, then controlling what ends up in this metadata will be more important. With that in mind restricting what horrible things the content providers can stuff into these files will make it easier to be strict in what comes out in the file. ie: txt only, no non-unicode inputs (look at some of the stuff put into rpm descriptions sometime, it'll make you cry). Constricting options now will help you forestall additional complexity and problems until this project is more established and being used. -sv _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
