[AppStream] Including review data in AppStream

[Richard Hughes]

On 2 March 2016 at 16:22, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
> First, why isn't this on the appstream at l.fd.o list? ;-)

Ooops. It was supposed to be, sorry.

> Also, it would blow up the size of the metadata even more, which I am
> not very happy about.

True.

> I think defining a dedicated JSON-based (or XML or ProtoBuf or
> $whatever) format for this and specifying that in the AppStream spec
> is the much better approach. I assume the new ratings & reviws API
> would identify apps by their AppStream component-id, so integrating
> that with existing SCs will be easy.

It does: see http://apps-xdgapp.rhcloud.com/1.0/reviews/api/app/simple-scan.desktop

> Some feedback from at least KDE and Elementary would be welcome
> though, not sure if they are reading that list, but they should be
> subscribed to the AppStream list ;-)

I've cc the intended mailing list, sorry xdg-app list.

Richard.