On Friday 17 Aug 2012 19:25:13 Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
Software Center, Appstream, Matthias Klumpp GSoC... I'm lost.
First, will any of this be provided as an official update for 12.2 or are we aiming to 12.3? Then do we still have some problems with the packagekit zypp backend and zypp itself? (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-11/msg01549.html). Plus it seems there is a need for some changes in the backend with the latest PackageKit (http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/08/appstream-distro-howto.html). Or is Matthias doing that for the zypp backend?
So, could somebody please summarize the current situation for openSUSE? If somebody wanted to help, where should he start looking?
In the early part of the year the Boosters team started working on Software Center/Appstore/Project Brezn stuff, which resulted in some progress on the backend metadata needed to link our OBS with a generic AppStream frontend. However, this effort had to be suspended for 12.2 due to turnover within the team. Matthias submitted and was accepted to do a GSoC to work on AppStream (the fork of Ubuntu Software Center). This is not coordinated with an openSUSE release. I've been trying to sort out the many bugs reported versus Apper for 12.2 and basically they are all bugs in PackageKit or PackageKit's zypp backend common to any PK frontend. As far as I can see nobody has been trying to fix those for 12.2 and I've raised the worst of those (bnc#775651) as a possible ship stopper as it prevents online update using our GUI tools . Gary Lin is trying to help fix the worst of those. In my opinion YaST s/w management and zypper patch/up are the only working ways to update 12.2. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+owner@opensuse.org