This is a great one for people who'd love to contribute but don't know what to work on. Look through the docs (link at the bottom) and send a patch to update our AppData file
Thanks /D > On Nov 26, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Richard Hughes (semi-automated) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > First, apologies for the direct email. I'm emailing you directly as you've > been listed as the update contact in one or more AppData files. In future > versions of the appstream-builder (the program used by distributions to merge > all the AppData files in packages into AppStream metadata) we're going to be > running a lot less crazy plugins. At the moment we're doing things like > parsing .gir files, running nm on binaries and looking up things from arrays > of hardcoded data just so we can try and work out what kudos the application > deserves. This doesn't scale, and means the machine generating the metadata > needs to have all kinds of extra build tools installed. > > So, what do I want you to do? Basically, I would like you to: > > Add the following data into subsurface.appdata.xml > > <kudos> > <kudo>HiDpiIcon</kudo> > <kudo>ModernToolkit</kudo> > </kudos> > > Of course, you don't have to do a release with this fix straight away, and if > you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport this as well. > Nothing bad will happen if we run the automated tools with the kudos already > set in the AppData file. If you think any of the other kudos might apply[1], > please email me back and we can discuss any new additions. > > When you've changed the file and committed, please email me back and I'll > mark your application as completed. If you don't want to hear from me ever > again just edit the <update_contact> in the AppData file and change it to > somebody else. I'm not planning on emailing any of you again this year, so > don't worry about me spamming you with even more work to do. If you don't add > the manual <kudos> then your application will still be visible in the various > software centers, but it may loose some of the stars it got auto-assigned. > > Thanks, > > Richard > > [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/plain/doc/kudos.md > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
