Not easy to change Editor's Picks

[Will Cooke]

We think that the Featured Application and Editor's Picks are fixed. These should be easily updateable by a designated team/teams.

An idea:

Add the picks in to a data file which can be pushed to by the community team and the desktop team. This file should be easy and quick to update so that the picks can be rotated regularly.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

As far as I can see, plugins can contribute to this list. There is a hardcoded default list supplied by the moduleset plugin, which is what is used now.

Perhaps it would be good for appstream to be able to put this in, via its configuration file or somewhere else, and then as-glib & friends can export it into g-s for its appstream plugin to use?

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

I could think of adding an <editor_pick> or similar tag to the AppStream metadata. Probably something named differently, like <favored>40</favored> (the number being some "weight" in case we want that, or have it just boolean instead? also, do we want to make this desktop-specific?)

Problem with it being in the AppStream metadata is that we can't ship banners and the like with the AS metadata, that's not it's purpose. So probably we want a different solution here, like having the stuff packaged in a .deb package.
If other application centers would want this feature too, I could even imagine adding a different file-format to the AppStream spec, describing those preferences, which gets downloaded and processed via the same way our current metadata is handled. That would take some time to discuss and implement though, not sure if that's helpful for your tight schedule.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

We're not going to manage the list - use ratings instead.