Software

Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.

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Getting in Touch

• IRC channel

• File a bug

• Developers: RichardHughes, KalevLember, MatthiasClasen

• Designers: AllanDay, RyanLerch

Development Resources

• Bugzilla product

• Git: git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-software

• Browse source code

• Tarballs

• Roadmap

• Design page

• Software Updates Design

Architecture

• Architecture: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/03/05/gnome-software-overall-plan/

• Appdata proposal: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

• Appdata validator: https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools

• Fedora appstream tools: https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream

Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.