Linux communities, we need your help!

There are a lot of Linux communities all over the globe filled with really nice people who just want to help others. Typically these people either can’t (or don’t feel comfortable) coding, and I’d love to harness some of that potential by adding a huge number of new application reviews to the ODRS. At the moment we have about 1100 reviews, mostly covering the more popular applications, and also mostly written in English.

What I would love is for a few groups of people to come together for their next LUG/outreach/InstallFest and sit down together somewhere cozy and write a few reviews. Bonus points if you use a less-well-known application, and even more points if you can write in a language other than English. Submitting a review is easy; just open up GNOME Software, find the application, and click ‘Write a Review‘ at the bottom of the page.

Application reviews help new users what to install, and the star ratings you give means we can return useful search results full of great applications. Please write an email, ask about helping the ODRS, and perhaps you can help a lot of new users next time you meet with your Linuxy friends.

Thanks!

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hughsie

Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

3 thoughts on “Linux communities, we need your help!”

  1. I think it can be useful resource, such as were sites like qt-apps.org, gtk-apps.org, etc…

    But how can a newbie find something there? I even tried find firefox with google via “site:https://odrs.gnome.org/admin/show/all firefox”.
    Google shows what review for firefox is #17, but shows page 42, then currently review #17 is on page 58.

    Did you think about search by name and category?

    1. Hey. I didn’t write the ODRS to be the user-facing resource, it’s really just a database, some logic and an admin panel for moderators. GNOME Software is supposed to be the thing you’re interacting with on a daily basis.

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