Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 15:01 -0400, Allan Day wrote: > >> * We need an app store. Having a centralised service for application >> distribution would make it easier for people to find the applications >> they are interested in, for us to generate revenue from those >> applications (perhaps through donations that could be redistributed it >> to 3rd party developers), and for handling application updates. The >> app store can be online in the first instance. GNOME 3 will also need >> a place where installed applications can be viewed and removed; this >> could be part of System Settings or a separate application. > > A few questions: > > 1) Do we allow other sources? Do we encourage it? If so, to > what degree does that break the "centralized updates" story? > 2) Does this GNOME app store allow proprietary software? > 3) What is our set of acceptable Free/Open Source Software licenses? > 4) To what degree do we expect software there to be reviewed? > How much can we learn from extensions.gnome.org? It's just Jasper > doing reviews, right?
These are all good questions, but I don't think we need to worry too much about them right now. What we need at this early stage is a prototype system that can be used on existing distributions. I assume that we'd use it to distribute a small number of existing GNOME applications to begin with. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-os-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-os-list
