Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13:38PM +1000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: JFYI. Debian has been represented at the meeting by Enrico Zini (who has blogged about various aspects of the meeting as well [1,2,3]) and David Kalnischkies. In the end, quite some pieces of Debian technologies have

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-29 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
On 01/27/2011 06:07 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: I am thinking of the AppStream project therefore as a big experiment to work together and I have the strong hope that we can find more places where we can work on together instead of against each other. Agreed. And if you see we were able to

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, thanks for the report and the fine work which the report is basing upon. A view remarks: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13:38PM +1000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: We do not want the end users we target here to have to learn about packages: they already know what an application is, and this is

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:26, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: What I'm missing in the summary and what was probably not discussed is another user oriented service:  ddtp.debian.net.  Translating descriptions of packages^Wapplications is IMHO quite important to do the last final step to

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!? Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. IMHO this does

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Vogt
B1;2703;0cOn Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:26, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: What I'm missing in the summary and what was probably not discussed is another user oriented service:  ddtp.debian.net.  Translating

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 27.01.2011 13:45, schrieb Andreas Tille: If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!? Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. IMHO this does show two things:

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:11:06 +0100, Michael Vogt m...@debian.org wrote: [...] AppStream focuses on translations of the name, keywords and (short) summary managed by upstream. We talked shortly about longer descriptions (possibly with markdown) but this would easily blow up the currently

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:45, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!? Other distributions

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[David Kalnischkies] Thats another usecase of package name matching: look at how debian describes the 'same' package compared to fedora. I've been testing one approach to this the last few days, using the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) dictionary, URL: http://cpe.mitre.org/ . I use it to

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
(keeling only lists CC'ed) Quoting Andreas Tille (andr...@an3as.eu): What I'm missing in the summary and what was probably not discussed is another user oriented service: ddtp.debian.net. Translating descriptions of packages^Wapplications is IMHO quite important to do the last final step

Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
: Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org To: distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Results of the App Installer Meeting Hi all, The cross-distro App Installer Meeting that was announced a few weeks ago took place last week. It was a very productive meeting, with people from Debian, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE