web server for appstream metadata screenshots

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 13 de juny de 2016, a les 14:03:35 CEST, Sebastian Kügler va 
escriure:
> 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.

You can not have all of these three:
 * Free commit to screenshots used by appstream
 * Shared screenshots between www and appstream
 * Protected contents in www

I feel your pain, but sincerely I don't see how to fix it.

Cheers,
  Albert


> 
> Cheers,