On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:16:00PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > Hi, > > Vincent Untz from Novell, who works on openSuse, invited us (and contributers > from other distributions, including Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu) to participate > in a meeting about software installers and the end-user experience. > > Here is how Vincent presents the project : > > ----- Quote ----- > *** Goals *** > > Blue-sky goals: > * agree on a common UI to install applications > * agree on what metadata to use, how to generate it, where to host it > * agree on a protocol to use to provide non-static metadata (featured > apps, ratings, comments, etc.) > * decide what metadata can be shared between distros, and what should > stay > distro-specific (eg: do we want user comments to be shared?) > > In reality, if it turns out we can't all agree on one item, it's still fine: > it > doesn't mean we can't collaborate on the other items. And some distros might > still work together. > > It's worth mentioning here that what matters to us is the end-user > experience. > It matters more than the technical implementation. > > *** Background *** > > Nearly all distributions are slowly moving towards making it easier to deal > with applications, and get information about those. The Ubuntu Software > Center > is a good example of work being done here. > > At the moment, many of us are working in our own corners, while we could > certainly all move much faster if we worked together, especially since we're > all targetting mostly the same result. > > We do want content to be provided not just by us, distributors, but also by > the users: their experience with an application can inspire other users to > install it too. > The goals of this meeting is to see what can be put in common and harmonized > between various distributions, from the end-user point of view. > ----- End of quote ----- > > The meeting will occur in Nürnberg, Germany from January 19th to 21st > > We don't know yet what the outcome of this 3-days meeting will be, but it may > be a great opportunity. > > For the mageia side, the participants will be : > - Michael Scherer (misc) > - Olivier Thauvin (Nanar), author of Sophie, the cross-distribution RPM > database, > - Samuel Verschelde (Stormi), for the mageia-app-db project. > > Best regards > > Samuel Verschelde Great !
This sounds like a very good idea, such a move would be great to improve interaction between distributions and divide the needed effort to produce for each distribution. As far as I’m concerned, I’m sorry the schedule is a bit too tight for me, I won’t be able to attend this meeting. Besides, the cost of the ticket won’t make it possible either. I’m eager to know what will come out of this meeting, have a good trip ! :-) Regards, -- Rémy CLOUARD () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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