GNOME Software and snapcraft.io present developer identity differently

[Evan]

Hi,

GNOME Software and https://snapcraft.io/aws-cli present the developer of an application differently. In GNOME Software, the Snap Store username is used whereas on snapcraft.io the "Company name" is used.

When present, GNOME Software should be made to show the "Company name" for the developer.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Evan, wasn't the conclusion of the discussion the other day that "Company name" was the wrong information to display?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

The metadata provided by snap is:

      "developer": "aws",

and there is no field that contains "Amazon Web Services, Inc.".

Is there a field in the store that is not passed through snapd or is this information coming from somewhere else?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

That should say "provided by snapd"

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

I would suspect snapd needs to passthrough

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4532

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The above PR should fix things transparently for g-s (and our own cli).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Unfortunately we need to revert this again because the display name can be changed in arbitrary ways by the developer. So it could be used to present misleading information.