Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2024, 15:58:53 CET schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau: > 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-summ > ary-and-developer-name vs. > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-d > eveloper
Update: That confusion is now resolved as upstream was in the middle of updating docs. And appstream docs now also recommend reverse-DNS notation: --- 8< --- The element should have a id property, containing a unique ID to identify the respective developer. It is recommended to use a reverse-DNS name, like org.gnome or io.github.ximion, or a Fediverse handle (like @u...@example.org) as ID to achieve a higher chance of uniqueness. --- 8< --- > 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/ ?) Left a respective note on https://invent.kde.org/teams/flathub/issues/-/issues/24#note_880623 and opened https://invent.kde.org/teams/flathub/issues/-/issues/25 > 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 Not sure where to file. I hope the interested parties will see this and act on it, no time left myself to push things here. Cheers Friedrich
