[AppStream] Fwd: Developer URLs in AppData

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm involved in the GNOME project as a designer, and have done a fair
> amount of work on the Software app. I'm writing to ask if it would be
> possible to enable specifying a developer website URL with AppData, as
> well as a project URL.
>
> There are quite a lot of cases where a developer is responsible for
> multiple applications. In these cases, it is likely that there will be
> a URL for both the developer and the application, and I think that it
> would be good to allow developers to be able to specify both. This
> would allow users to get information about the app as well as the
> person/organisation that produced it.
>
> This change would also allow developer names (which AppData already
> allows to be specified) to be expressed as a link.
>
> Having this field would be welcome for the GNOME apps.

+1
I think having paths in AppStream to guide users into the contribution
channels is very important.

Possibly related: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/125

Aleix