web server for appstream metadata screenshots

[Allen Winter]

On Monday, June 13, 2016 02:03:35 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Thanks all for the input!
> 
> On woensdag 8 juni 2016 13:46:17 CEST Burkhard Lück wrote:
> > > I've been adding appstream metadata to one of the apps I maintain, among
> > > that are also screenshots, in the form of a URL. That means that I have to
> > > put the screenshots on a webserver.
> > >
> > > Do we already have a canonical location for these screenshots? 
> > 
> > Scripty tracks 93 appdata files in trunk kf5
> > 
> > 65 of these appdata files have a png on http://kde.org/images/screenshots/
> > 
> > These pngs are also used for https://www.kde.org/applications/
> > 
> > Means you have only one source for the app screenshot and don't need to
> > sync  two locations
> 
> I've done that now for Cuttlefish.
> 
> The obvious problem with that is that it needs interaction from someone with 
> commit rights to the website, so we created a gatekeeper here in the space 
> that should be under the control of the app developer.
> 
> In practice, that means, that less app devs will provide screenshots with 
> their appstream metadata, and appstream adoption is not quite excellent to 
> begin with.
> 
I'm not 100% sure of all the requirements for the web server you are after
but we could put the EBN machine to use for this?
we could even make a foo.kde.org vhost if we wanted?