<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 7:04 AM Timothée Ravier <<a href="mailto:travier@redhat.com">travier@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>Flathub is now requiring that applications define a "developer_name" tag in their metadata (see [1], [2]).</div><div><br></div><div>What do folks think would be a good value for our application there?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wait, so Flathub has begun requiring an older tag that the Appstream developers have deprecated?</div><div><br></div><div>So we need to add tags to our metadata that are already deprecated and which are going to result in future failures of our own unit tests when upstream pulls the plug on developer_name as a tag and makes it a warning deprecation rather than an information deprecation?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I'm open to suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ben</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/#name-summary-and-developer-name" target="_blank">https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/#name-summary-and-developer-name</a><br></div><div>[2] <a href="https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/linter/#appstream-missing-developer-name" target="_blank">https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/linter/#appstream-missing-developer-name</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer" target="_blank">https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249</a></div><div>[5] <a href="https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708</a></div><div>[6] <a href="https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465</a></div><div>[7] <a href="https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px"><span>Timothée</span> <span>Ravier</span><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(170,170,170);margin:0px"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px"><span>CoreOS co-Team Lead</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 4px;font-size:12px"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">Red Hat<span></span></a></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-size:medium;margin-bottom:4px"></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:12px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="mailto:travier@redhat.com" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px" target="_blank">travier@redhat.com</a></span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-size:medium;margin-top:12px"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="100px"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://static.redhat.com/libs/redhat/brand-assets/2/corp/logo--200.png" width="90" height="auto"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table border="0"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>
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