AppData additions required for the software center

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Hello.

I'll do those today.

Tomaz Canabrava

Em 11 de ago de 2016 08:54, "Richard Hughes (semi-automated)" <
autohughski at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi again!
>
> 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.
>
> We've been busy building an awesome software center, and we've been adding
> more and more metadata fields that upstream authors can set. The software
> center is now being used in Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian and Arch, with
> many millions of happy users.
>
> Some of the newest features include a way to make it easy for translators
> to contribute new translations of your applications by specifying a URL in
> the subsurface.appdata.xml AppData file that tells them where to start
> looking. This can be specified by adding:
>
> <url type="translate">http://the-web-site-with-translation-
> instructions/</url>
>
> Another useful tag to add is to tell end-users where to donate, for
> instance:
>
> <url type="donation">http://www.gnome.org/friends/</url>
>
> If it's been some time since you updated the AppData file (and hey, you've
> got an app to write!) you can get add the latest metadata fields by doing
> `appstream-util upgrade subsurface.appdata.xml` and then replacing any
> FIXMEs in the file with actual data. We'll be putting more functionality
> into the software center in the future that uses this extra data, but we
> need more upstream software to opt-in before we can enable features, for
> instance, providing a button for users to donate to specific apps.
>
> You can also use `appstream-util validate-relax` on your AppData file to
> check the various fields meet our style guidelines. If you disagree with
> any of the validation warnings, please let me know!
>
> Of course, you don't have to do a release with these enhancements straight
> away, and if you have a stable branch it would be a good thing to backport
> this as well if it does not add translated strings or you have no string
> freeze policy.
>
> When you've changed the file(s) 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 more than once every 6
> months, so don't worry about me spamming you with even more work to do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
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