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# Action Items
## Next steps / Timeline
* **[DONE]** (step -1 : save the piratepads somewhere :))
* Step 0 (next week)
* Get infrastructure for development (wiki, mailing list, git) => fd.o
* subscribe to mailing list: [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions]]
* **[DONE]** wiki: [[http://distributions.freedesktop.org/|http://distributions.freedesktop.org/]]
* bugzilla: product on [[http://bugs.freedesktop.org|http://bugs.freedesktop.org]] [vuntz to create it if needed]
* **[DONE]** git repo: gitorious.org
* **[DONE]** Draw the big picture [hughsie]
* **[DONE]** xml schema for the metadata format (hughsie)
* First step: end-of-march
* Update desktop entry spec for new fields [vuntz]
* Push new fields in .desktop upstream [all]
* Getting the metadata published by distros [Debian: ?, Fedora: ?, Mageia: misc+samuel?, openSUSE: ?, Ubuntu: ? Can do it on [[http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/|http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/]] for testing (Nanar)]
* Create desktop-xml-to-xapian musher (mvo :-)
* Get up to date xapian in all distros
* Implement the OCS changes described below (Frank)
* Move USC to using PackageKit rather than leaking apt stuff (mvo,vuntz)
* CLA topic clarified
* How to validate:
* USC works on openSUSE
* USC works on Fedora (hughsie)
* 10% of desktop files have extra metadata
* distros are adding metadata back upstream (packagers)
* USC can display the metadata
* resolution on CLA (mvo)
* Second step: end-of-june
* Publish specification for the metadata format
* Setup distros OCS servers
* Use OCS in USC
* Put test data in OCS servers
* Getting screenshots.debian.net to have symlinks for appid
* How to validate:
* screenshots working on other distros in USC
* test data from OCS visible in USC
* End Goal: november
* Distros releasing at the end of 2011 have all that
* Hopefully with OCS data
* Hopefully with suggestions
## Big untriaged list of action items
This is a list of action items organized by topics. Most of them have been integrated in the timeline above.
**List, for each metadata item**
* is it available offline / online ? (essential vs nice to have)
* where it comes from (desktop file, user-provided...)
* if it's translated, and how
* if it's the same for all distributions or has to be tagged by origin
**Communication**
* share meeting results
* FOSDEM talk (vuntz)
* wiki
* write a short "why this project is for your distribution" text ?
* "sell" the project to our distributions/managers (hughsie, vuntz)
* "sell" it to other distributions
* "sell" it upstream
**Desktop Files (vuntz,hughsie)**
* Add extra items to .desktop item specification
* Add Homepage
* a package can contain more than one application, e.g. openoffice-writer and presenter
* Add Keywords
* So gimp.desktop can contain "photoshop"
* Add !OnlyShowIn/![[NotShowIn|NotShowIn]] item for !AppStore/![[SoftwareCenter|SoftwareCenter]]
* Enhances=firefox.desktop [comma seporated list] for firefox plugins (AddonTo, Extends,... pick one)
* Fix categories to be sane, so they could be used as tags too
* Add new categories
* Deprecate old useless ones
* Fix the issue with secondary categories requiring a main category, and you end up with two main categories because you're too explicit when listing secondary ones
* etc.
* We'll use Categories by default, and if an override is needed, use AppCategory?
**Software Center**
* Write PackageKit backend [vuntz/mvo]
* improve distro abstractions (pkginfo provider instead of apt cache) including strings like *Ubuntu* Software Center [mvo]
* ask people to review ubuntu cla [mvo,vuntz]
* write OCS ratings/reviews backend
* add support for appdata.xml in update-softare-center.py [mvo]
**OCS**
* {spam} for comments/inappropriate comments (Frank)
* Merge the new requirements into an OCS version 1.7 draft (Frank)
* Do a tagging module (Frank)
* Discuss and agree on OCS 1.7 on [[ocs@freedesktop.org|mailto:ocs@freedesktop.org]] (Frank)
* Provide a testing Server for development (Frank)
* Do an OCS 2.0 meeting (Frank)
**Screenshot**
* screenshot.debian.net should use application id as a key, even if it's a symlink
**Translations**
* Define translations workflow for applications descriptions
**Packaging (misc,Nanar)**
* rpmlint/lintian: have some checks to make sure the .desktop metadata (Url, Enhances, etc.) is also in the package metadata
* automatically add a Provides for each .desktop file
**Metadata format**
* Create a spec on xdg (can help: vuntz)
* Create a reference implementation
* create a fedora implementation in icky python (hughsie)
**Matching package data (enrico)**
* source<->source (via upstream URLs -- or something else ;-))
* binary<->binary (via .desktop files, regexps on package names)
* work at [[http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/distromatch.git|http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/distromatch.git]]
* datasets at [[http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dist-info.tar.gz|http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dist-info.tar.gz]]
* Other attempts:
* [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap]]
* [[http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373|http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373]]
* [[https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches|https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches]]
* [[http://packages.debian.org/sid/whohas|http://packages.debian.org/sid/whohas]]
* Use cases
* falling back to other distros for missing data like categories and screenshots
* accessing ratings and comments
* finding patches from other distros
* linking BTSes
* cross-distro, googlable application index
**Building a Xapian index for non-debian distros (enrico)**
* bringing debtags across after a rough binary package matching [prototype done: [[http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/distromatch/|http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/distromatch/]] now it needs to be deployed with regular updates]
* [[Build a Xapian index on your distro|Distributions/AppStream/Attic/XapianIndexHOWTO]]
* run Enrico's faceted prototype ([[http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/pkgshelf/|http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/pkgshelf/]]) on other distro data
**Klik (vuntz)**
* talk to alexl about klik
* see [[http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/07/experiments-with-runtime-less-app-bundles/|http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/07/experiments-with-runtime-less-app-bundles/]]
**(side things) (enrico)**
* Deploying apt-file fast server-side index for other distros [[http://dde.debian.net/dde/q/aptfile/all/bin/mc|http://dde.debian.net/dde/q/aptfile/all/bin/mc]]
* web-based application browsing (mageia-app-db project) (Samuel)
* [[http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki|http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki]]
* are there other distributions than Mageia and Mandriva interested in this app ?
* deploy one test instance per RPM distribution
* fedora
* opensuse
* make it usable with DEB repos too (currently only RPM) : depending on debian/ubuntu interest in it.
* use xapian index to speed things up
* flag packages as applications based on .desktop files and provide "application-only" views
* use "strong" and "weak" suggests dependencies to group applications and add-ons together
* map from distributions package names to names in screenshots.debian.net, until we have the screenshots provided by OCS servers
* one click install
* tags support (read-only to begin with)
* use OCS servers as soon as they are available (read-only to begin with)
**Debtags links**
* Pointers to the data: [[http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/|http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/]]
**Misc**
* [[http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/pkgshelf.git|http://git.debian.org/?p=users/enrico/pkgshelf.git]] (the prototype xapian based appstoreything put together in 2 hours that I demoed the first day [enrico])
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