Not wanting to intrude and it's highly likely this has already been seen but the idea of the app store was brought up on the Fedora mailing list recently [0] so it could be an opportunity to share resources to an extent.
There's also the Appstream[1] project on fdo that aims to make it easy to build software centre style apps. Regards, Nick [0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/172091.html [1] http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream On 9 October 2012 14:36, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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