Could someone provide context, e.g. what "app"? Plus I'm not even sure who wrote what in the quoted email due to missing attribution.
andre On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi Allan, > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Allan Day <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > > > It seems like a shame if we don't distribute the app on the > > > > Play > > > > store. As far as I can see, while there's a few things to work > > > > out, it > > > > shouldn't be all that difficult to resolve them. > > > > > > The thing is that I'm really not the person to deal with those > > > issues > > > so I don't know if they are difficult or easy to solve. If > > > someone > > > else can take care of all the bureaucratic and administrative > > > issues/questions involved, that would be lovely. > > > > The main thing that's required is an agreement with the Release > > Team > > about how the process should work. > > Release team is usually pretty busy and thin on resources so I'm not > sure if they could take more work/responsibility on their shoulders, > but I'll ask (adding to CC). > > > A good starting point would be to > > create a wiki page for the app (under https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/ > > ), > > with the usual details: > > > > * List the maintainer, development resources, bug tracking. > > * Explain how contributors can get involved. > > * Explain how the app can be tested. > > * Screenshots?! > > That could be easily arranged, Ankit could you please take care of > that? You can take a look at other wikipages under > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/ for examples. > > > And since it's an Android app, it would be good to have a few notes > > on > > how translations and documentation work. > > Not sure if documentation is much needed here but translations, yes > we > need a way to handle those. I have no clue about Android so this is > another thing Ankit will have to answer. > > > ... > > > > I guess I'm missing something here, but what would be the > > > > motivation > > > > for moving to freedesktop.org? > > > > > > Cause geoclue is there and this is more a part of geoclue than > > > GNOME, > > > even though currently GNOME is the only desktop that will benefit > > > from > > > it. > > > > I'm not so sure about this. GNOME seems far better equipped to > > maintain and release user facing software than Freedesktop. > > Of course but IMHO that is not relevant unless we want release team > to > create infra to build (and upload binaries to Play store). Otherwise, > whether it's going to be on Play store, our webspace or geoclue's > webspace, we simply provide link to that. > -- Andre Klapper | [email protected] http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
