Aspect ratio of <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/*.png>

[Stephan Bergmann]

You can likely disregard the below at least for now.  Only after sending 
it I realized that the Flathub build failure was presumably caused by 
another, spurious infrastructure issue, and that those AppData 
verification failures would only have caused a warning, not a hard 
failure (at least for now).

On 22/05/2019 15:24, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> I'm not sure this is the best mailing list to discuss this issue.  Feel 
> free to cc further mailing lists or relevant people.
> 
> We have a set of screenshots accessible via URLs like 
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/writer-01.png> that are 
> referenced from our AppData files (see the various 
> sysui/desktop/appstream-appdata/libreoffice-*.appdata.xml sources, and 
> solenv/bin/assemble-flatpak.sh generating a single such file for the 
> Flatpak build).
> 
> Now, building LO 6.2.4 Flatpak on Flathub failed because Flathub started 
> to sport a new check that verifies that such AppData screenshots have a 
> 16:9 aspect ratio.  I'm totally clueless as to how much sense such a 
> check makes and whether it will continue to prevent us from providing an 
> updated LO on Flathub, see the mail thread I started at 
> <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2019-May/001582.html> 
> "Run strict validation on AppData file" for details.
> 
> But in case we'll be forced to indeed provide 16:9 screenshots, I'd like 
> to already clarify who'll be able to do that.  And whether those files 
> would replace the existing 
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/*.png> or would get fresh URLs.
> 
> The set of such .png files referenced from (current master) 
> sysui/desktop/appstream-appdata/libreoffice-*.appdata.xml sources is
> 
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/base-01.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/base-02.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/calc-01.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/calc-02.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/draw-01.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/draw-02.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/impress-01.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/impress-02.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/writer-01.png>
> <https://hub.libreoffice.org/screenshots/writer-02.png>
> 
> of which the Flatpak AppData file references only the five *-01.png.  So 
> it would be great if at a minimum those five could be provided as 16:9 
> if it turns out there's indeed need for that.