By popular request, there is now a list of recently updated applications in the gnome-software overview page.
Upstream applications have to do two things to be featured here:
- Have an upstream release within the last 2 months (will be reduced as the number of apps increases)
- Have upstream release notes in the AppData file
Quite a few applications from XFCE, GNOME and KDE have already been including <release> tags and this visibility should hopefully encourage other projects to do the same. As a small reminder, the release notes should be small, and easily understandable by end users. You can see lots of examples in the GNOME Software AppData file. Any questions, please just email me or leave comments here. Thanks!
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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.
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Is it really needed to keep all releases in the appdata file?
You don’t need to keep them all, but it’s an interesting historical record. You can also generate a NEWS file from the AppData file if you want.