Hi,
I'm happy to help. Looks like you have a phabricator ticket, would a
dedicated board make more sense to track this? It would add granularity
to the tasks, instead of having a one huge checklist in a single task.
This sounds like something well aligned with one of the previous KDE
Goals, "All about the Apps". Perhaps we can use it's matrix channel
(https://matrix.to/#/#kde-all-about-apps:kde.org) to coordinate and find
more people to help with this?
- Adam
W dniu 11.04.2024 o 21:36, Paul Brown pisze:
On Thursday 11 April 2024 20:38:19 CEST Andy B wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Fellow Community Members,
FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has
issued
guidelines to help project maintainers adapt the look and descriptions
of
their apps to FlatHub's new design and layout:
https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-> > >
guidelines/
Not that these are **guidelines**, not **rules**. Apps that do not
adapt
will
not be removed or penalised, except they may just not show up on the
front
page, as they would not fit in the aesthetic FlatHub is looking for.
We have started a task here:
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17275
and we are calling on app maintainers and any other contributor with a
developer account to help us update apps distributed via FlatHub.
If you would like to lend a hand, subscribe to the task, read the
report
for
each app supplied by FlatHub, and help us bring them up to date.
Thank you for making us aware of this change. I wanted to ask that we
work
closely together with the VDG designers to help in this process. If you
can't get the original authors or app maintainers in the work, or even
if
you do, we can help adapt the icons to the standards required when it
comes
to graphics.
That would be great! What do you suggest? What other ML do you think we
should
crosspost this to? Maybe you can post and coordinate things in the VDG
Matrix/
Telegram channels.
Also please feel free to add stuff to the task. Maybe add VDG-specific
tasks to
the TODO list so we can all keep track.
Probably like this:
1. We want to understand if any of our Flathub apps are already in
compliance vs others that are not. We focus on the ones that need fixing.
We got a very comprehensive list of problems on the task, but here it is as
well:
https://carlschwan.eu/appdata/
2. Check with a maintainer or person responsible for the app to see how
they could meet the criteria.
3. Determine who will do the work, if needed
We have a list of (very basic) TODOs on the task. Anybody can come in, do one
or two, and then move out. Most of the TODOs require changing a line or two in
a text file. Very junior-job like stuff.
Agreed that for more complex jobs, like re-designing icons and stuff, would
require more planning.
4. Work with the VDG when all other steps are not possible
I realize this is a bit of a project, would Adam Szopa be available to
coordinate some of this?
Added to CC. Let's see what he can tell us. And Ingo? He's the app store
engineer person. Surely this would be in his field of expertise.
Cheers
Paul
