Defining a developer name for our applications metadata

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 7:04 AM Timothée Ravier <travier at redhat.com> 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.
>

Wait, so Flathub has begun requiring an older tag that the Appstream
developers have deprecated?

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?


> I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>

Cheers,
Ben


>
> [1]
> 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
> [3]
> https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-developer
> [4] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/249
> [5] https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/708
> [6] https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/merge_requests/465
> [7] https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/531
>
> --
>
> Timothée Ravier
>
> CoreOS co-Team Lead
>
> Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
> travier at redhat.com
> <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
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