Defining a developer name for our applications metadata

[Nate Graham]

What sprang immediately to my mind was simply "KDE". Short and sweet.

Nate



On 1/30/24 10:34, Timothée Ravier wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1] 
> https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/#name-summary-and-developer-name <https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/#name-summary-and-developer-name>
> [2] 
> https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/linter/#appstream-missing-developer-name <https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/linter/#appstream-missing-developer-name>
> [3] 
> https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer <https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer>
> [4] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249 
> <https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249>
> [5] https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708 
> <https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708>
> [6] https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465 
> <https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465>
> [7] https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531 
> <https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531>
> 
> -- 
> 
> Timothée Ravier
> 
> CoreOS co-Team Lead
> 
> Red Hat<https://www.redhat.com/>
> 
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> 
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