Community Application Support

This proposal is about enabling the community to create open applications and share them through a channel that is hosted in meego.com.

Scope of this proposal

This proposal is about community built open applications that would be shared through meego.com. The proposal mainly outlines what services need to be set up for supporting application sharing through meego.com.

This proposal is not about platform development.

The technical parts of this proposal relate to the official MeeGo build and repositories so, that the community build and repository infrastructure load packages form the official side, but do not upload to them.

What are the parts that the community application infrastructure consists of

• Web front end for developers to upload their applications to

Later there can be a direct 'upload to service' function in the MeeGo application development IDE.

• Build server (OBS server), needed for building the applications
• Repository server, for storing the applications and catering them to the end users
• The logic for running the build and repository servers
• End user clients, for the end users of MeeGo devices to get the applications with
• A web front end to the repository, so that the application lists can also be browsed on the net
• Quality assurance process, initially this most likely will be human testing, but automated tools would make it much faster and simpler

Technical resources and how to start

• The people to implement all the above mentioned parts

The people that are needed are initially available

• Servers for the system

Some servers have been ordered, and one could be used for build and repository