Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024, 18:34:46 CET schrieb Timothée Ravier: > Hi folks, > > Flathub is now requiring that applications define a "developer_name" tag in > their metadata (see [1], [2]). > > What do folks think would be a good value for our application there? > > Based on the suggestion in the documentation [3], I started making PRs [4] > [5] [6] [7] for our KDE Apps with "The KDE Community" as the > "developer_name" tag.
Seems meanwhile flathub maintainers have resolved that on their side, and now also support the non-deprecatd <developer> tag, by what I learned in MR https://invent.kde.org/utilities/okteta/-/merge_requests/22 The proposed patch there raises another question here though and some tasks: --- 8< --- <developer id="org.kde"> <name translate="no">KDE</name> </developer> --- 8< --- Is "org.kde" (reverse-DNS) to be the official id, and is/could that be documented somewhere? accessibility-inspector currently uses even "https:// kde.org", while others use "kde.org" (non-reverse DNS). Given the purpose of the id is to be unique per group, this should be standardized, no? :) Confusingly enough one doc talks about "tld.domain" as pattern of the id (flathub), while the other talks about "gnome.org" as example (appstream): https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#name-summary-and-developer-name vs. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer Tasks for people into this, please: a) decide on an id here b) document that id somewhere (e.g. https://develop.kde.org/docs/packaging/flatpak/ ?) c) ask upstream to change the docs to not use "The KDE Community" as example, but "KDE" (and with no-translate attribute) in the respective docs: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer Cheers Friedrich
