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: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions</a> 
      * **[DONE]** wiki: <a href="http://distributions.freedesktop.org/">http://distributions.freedesktop.org/</a> 
      * bugzilla: product on <a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org">http://bugs.freedesktop.org</a> [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 <a href="http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/">http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/</a> 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 item for !AppStore/!?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 (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
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* create a fedora implementation in icky python (hughsie) 
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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
datasets at http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dist-info.tar.gz

Other attempts:

* <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap</a> 
* <a href="http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373">http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373</a> 
* <a href="https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches">https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches</a> 
* <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/whohas">http://packages.debian.org/sid/whohas</a>

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/ now it needs to be deployed with regular updates]
Build a Xapian index on your distro
run Enrico's faceted prototype (http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/pkgshelf/) on other distro data Klik (vuntz)

talk to alexl about klik

* see <a href="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/</a>

(side things) (enrico)

Deploying apt-file fast server-side index for other distros http://dde.debian.net/dde/q/aptfile/all/bin/mc

web-based application browsing (mageia-app-db project) (Samuel)

* <a href="http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki">http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki</a> 
* 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/ Misc
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])