Hi Ankit, On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Ankit <[email protected]> wrote: > I've put GeoclueShare in the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GeoclueShare
Thanks so much. About translations, thanks for adding the link to "supporting other languages" guide but it seems to be an in-depth information for developers. What would be lovely is a simple guide for non-developers to learn how they can contribute translations. At this point, it would be fine to assume some basic familiarity with git. > It's still not been added to the Apps page yet, shall I go ahead and add it? If you meant this page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps you'll find it's already added automatically for you :) > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> I was going to provide a link to board-list archive but seems that's >> not public accessible. Here is the orginal email of this thread: >> >> ---- From Ankit <[email protected]> --- >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I'm working on a Google Summer of Code project [1] under the >> mentorship of Zeeshan Ali. >> >> Half of my project was to create an Android application. Now that the >> application is ready, we are expecting to publish it on two major >> Android app stores F-droid and Google Play. Google Play doesn't have >> an official GNOME account yet; and in my opinion it should have one, >> for more Android applications to come. >> Google Play has a one time fee of $25 for developers. >> >> [1] >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2015/Projects/Ankit_GPSSharing >> >> Thanks, >> Ankit >> ----------------- >> >> If you like, I can forward the entire thread to release-team list? >> >> > 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/ >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) >> ________________________________________ >> Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > > -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
