[AppStream] Including review data in AppStream

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> For GNOME 3.20 we're using the xdg-app-review site for anonymous
> ratings and reviews, but this isn't going to be suitable for
> enterprise distros like RHEL. For RHEL we'd want to ship canned review
> data, i.e. that had been checked and moderated ahead of time.
>
> One way of doing this is to just ship a custom JSON file but a more
> standards compliant way would be to ship the review data in the
> AppStream format instead. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea I
> can work on a proposal for new API.

Hi,
Just to understand, this canned review data will be bundled into RHEL
rpm packages?

I think it would make sense to standardize as well the URL scheme to
access the data (as well as the JSON), in case we ever have the
opportunity to serve it live.

Aleix