Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines

[Paul Brown]

On Friday 12 April 2024 14:35:10 CEST Adam Szopa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm happy to help. Looks like you have a phabricator ticket, would a
> dedicated board make more sense to track this? It would add granularity
> to the tasks, instead of having a one huge checklist in a single task.

Sure. Please make the changes  you see fit so it is more workable.

> This sounds like something well aligned with one of the previous KDE
> Goals, "All about the Apps". Perhaps we can use it's matrix channel
> (https://matrix.to/#/#kde-all-about-apps:kde.org) to coordinate and find
> more people to help with this?

Sounds good too.

Cheers

Paul

> 
> 
> - Adam
> 
> W dniu 11.04.2024 o 21:36, Paul Brown pisze:
> > On Thursday 11 April 2024 20:38:19 CEST Andy B wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> >>>>> Dear Fellow Community Members,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has
> >>>>> issued
> >>>>> guidelines to help project maintainers adapt the look and descriptions
> >>> 
> >>> of
> >>> 
> >>>>> their apps to FlatHub's new design and layout:
> >>> https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/qualit
> >>> y-> > >>>> 
> >>>> guidelines/
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Not that these are **guidelines**, not **rules**. Apps that do not
> >>> 
> >>> adapt
> >>> 
> >>>>> will
> >>>>> not be removed or penalised, except they may just not show up on the
> >>> 
> >>> front
> >>> 
> >>>>> page, as they would not fit in the aesthetic FlatHub is looking for.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> We have started a task here:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> https://phabricator.kde.org/T17275
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> and we are calling on app maintainers and any other contributor with a
> >>>>> developer account to help us update apps distributed via FlatHub.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> If you would like to lend a hand, subscribe to the task, read the
> >>> 
> >>> report
> >>> 
> >>>>> for
> >>>>> each app supplied by FlatHub, and help us bring them up to date.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you for making us aware of this change. I wanted to ask that we
> >>> 
> >>> work
> >>> 
> >>>> closely together with the VDG designers to help in this process. If you
> >>>> can't get the original authors or app maintainers in the work, or even
> >>>> if
> >>>> you do, we can help adapt the icons to the standards required when it
> >>> 
> >>> comes
> >>> 
> >>>> to graphics.
> >>> 
> >>> That would be great! What do you suggest? What other ML do you think we
> >>> should
> >>> crosspost this to? Maybe you can post and coordinate things in the VDG
> >>> Matrix/
> >>> Telegram channels.
> >>> 
> >>> Also please feel free to add stuff to the task. Maybe add VDG-specific
> >>> tasks to
> >>> the TODO list so we can all keep track.
> >> 
> >> Probably like this:
> >> 
> >> 1. We want to understand if any of our Flathub apps are already in
> >> compliance vs others that are not. We focus on the ones that need fixing.
> > 
> > We got a very comprehensive list of problems on the task, but here it is
> > as
> > well:
> > 
> > https://carlschwan.eu/appdata/
> > 
> >> 2. Check with a maintainer or person responsible for the app to see how
> >> they could meet the criteria.
> >> 3. Determine who will do the work, if needed
> > 
> > We have a list of (very basic) TODOs on the task. Anybody can come in, do
> > one or two, and then move out. Most of the TODOs require changing a line
> > or two in a text file. Very junior-job like stuff.
> > 
> > Agreed that for more complex jobs, like re-designing icons and stuff,
> > would
> > require more planning.
> > 
> >> 4. Work with the VDG when all other steps are not possible
> >> 
> >> I realize this is a bit of a project, would Adam Szopa be available to
> >> coordinate some of this?
> > 
> > Added to CC. Let's see what he can tell us. And Ingo? He's the app store
> > engineer person. Surely this would be in his field of expertise.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul


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