new metadata for charms for the charm store updates

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Richard,

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Richard Harding
<rick.harding at canonical.com> wrote:
> What I wanted to see is how we can best get charms updated with at least a
> category defined so that we can have an array of our default icons for each
> category in display. How much of this should be part of the proofing of
> charms? Is there a good way to mass update charms in any way?

No, because people can have personal charms that only they can edit.
We have to accept that some charms will stay without a category for a
long time.

Here is a suggested approach to handle the addition:

1) Get agreement from juju-dev on the proper way to add metadata
(field name, value format, accepted values, etc)

2) Document these decisions somewhere people can be referred to

3) Update the charm store (store.juju.ubuntu.com) to warn about the
missing field

4) Make "juju publish" reject charms without the field

> To start with we're moving forward by setting any charm without a category
> as a Misc charm. We just don't want to launch with a page full of the same
> Misc icon over and over.

If we don't know what category a charm is in, I think it should be
filed under Unknown or similar. Having it in Misc next to other real
miscellaneous charms is misleading.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net