User-contributed metadata for software-center
To improve the presentation of software in the Ubuntu Software Center, Launchpad should have pages for people to suggest better names, summaries, descriptions, categories and subcategories, search keywords, and screenshots for applications and binary packages. A package maintainer should be able to merge a suggestion into the package by clicking a button.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Rick Spencer
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Matthew Paul Thomas
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Pending Approval
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Setting some work items approximations, this will need (lots of) refinement from the registry team
Work items:
find a suitable place where user can contribute meta-data (e.g. http://
define UI for this: TODO
define translations integration: TODO
define database changes: TODO
define approval schema for suggestions (only pkg maintainer? people with upload rights in the same pkg set?): TODO
add export feature that generates a suitable .desktop file for inclusion in the source pkg: TODO
integrate lp:ubuntu/$pkgname to get simple merging: TODO
