On 11/02/2010 04:24 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
Hi,
yes. We don´t have an website for this project yet. :-)
But I indeed suggest to use the OCS API and one of the existing client for openSUSE.
What do you mean with existing client for openSUSE?
MeeGo will use the same system in the next release and others are also interested. So this could be a nice area of collaboration between different distributions. It´s also good for openSUSE because most of the AppStore system already exists. It shouldn´t be a problem to launch it for 11.4
Open TODOs
- Do a meeting with people from other distributions to try to convince everybody to use the same API. This would be good for the complete Linux ecosystem.
Makes sense
- Find a name for the openSUSE AppStore client. Something like "AppStore", "SoftwareCenter", SoftwareInstaller, ..
- Create an icon for the client. - Take the existing GHNS client and convert it into a standalone Desktop client. (very easy)
Get Hot New Stuff? How to hook that up with the app installation?
- Find a domainname for the website (foo.opensuse.org or opensuse-foo.org, ...) - Decision how the applications are maintained. (scanning of a existing repository and extracting metadata or user generated entries with ratings, ...) - Do the backend (Frank) - more I forgot :-)
I plan to do a proof of concept in the next few days.
We could finalize everything during a 2-3 days developer meeting.
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