On Monday, August 06, 2012 20:16:24 Matthias Klumpp wrote:

Hi! Work done during the last week: * Discussed writing a libappstream with developers of other Software-Centers, which will allow accessing the AppStream-DB via an easy GObject-based interface. This will allow us to have all SC projects agree on a common DBagreement ("standard") which would be the AppStream database. All like the idea, so I added this to my post-SoC-TODO - some talking still has to be done. * Finished PackageKit parallelization, the most important part of my work! - wrote remaining unit tests - added lots of documentation and a extended the porting-guide for PackageKit backends - tested with Zif and Aptcc backend * PackageKit 0.8.3 release with all changes upstream, released today! :-) * Run some performance tests on Fedora * Added a whole bunch of improvements to the SC code, including some bugfixes - E.g. we no use the more advanced PkTasks object for some actions now (where it makes sense) - Fixed some crashes - Adjusted to new PK 0.8.x API - Directly connect to the AppStream database, so we can Resolve() as many packages as possible * Unfortunately, the Zypper backend of OpenSUSE is not yet ready * Experienced some new problems, details below

I also had a meeting with people from OpenSUSE/SUSE to talk about what is necessary to get Software-Center support in OpenSUSE. It was a very productive meeting, and I hope you'll see the results later. For now, I will create a step-by-step plan about what needs to be done to make AppStream/SC work in any distribution. I already have some drafts for it (notes I wrote down during my work on the AppStream DB) and will publish the list this week. Also, the PK backends are in a not-so-great shape, which makes testing the SC really, really hard and annoying. This will become better soon, but I don't think it will work in time with my SoC. So I will probably not have a usable SC and the end, but I'll have a SC which will work good as soon as PackageKit backends are fixed. The remaining time I'll try to squash as many annoying bugs I can find and make the SC work well enough for basic testing. To get a great and usable project, I'll have to invest some more time after the SoC, which I'll do.

These are the recent changes/findings, I'll keep you updated! As always if you have questions, feel free to ask! Cheers, Matthias

Thanks for the reports, Matthias, the results are exciting! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org