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. 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. - 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) - 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. What do you think? Cheers Frank On 02.11.2010, at 14:47, Jiri Srain wrote:
There was a keynote at the openSUSE conference on Saturday which was held by Frank Karlitschek. He talked about the Praetzel project, which includes, among other parts, an app-store and has currently ready three clients.
I tried to find the project and fialed - perhaps because I did not get the name correctly, as it is a word in the Bavarian dialect. As it is supported for MeeGo, which uses in genral the same update stack as openSUSE, it could be on option to use it at openSUSE.
Jiri
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 11:19:18 Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
Following up with the discussions that took place in the openSUSE conference, I would like to kick off a discussion that has as an objective to come up with a step-by-step plan on how to
- Make it ridiculously easy for the users to find & install the ridiculously good software
This has various possible technical solutions. But the output has to be:
- a "place" where the user can click and see the available cool software (ie: Chromium" not ie: libhenne-devel) with screenshots, ratings, comments
- The user should not care about repositories and their combination requisites, or strange signature dialogs
- Other pieces in the distro need to be integrated, or at least it would be nice to, for example we ship KPackageKit which is a lovely app if you show a bunch of apps separated by groups, but gets completely unusable if you show 2135 packages with strange names in one category in a simple list-view. Other pieces don't, like zypper, YaST2 which are mean to be used as package managers.
- Whatever new opportunities we are able to get done in the process. For example, Frank's project bretzel has components that fit int he backoffice, aiming for a one click publishing of software from the developer's side (using adrian's _service's) which fits ridiculously great in our build service story.
Cheers
-- Regards,
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