Bug 469811

Summary: Powerplant is inappropriately listed as unmaintained
Product: [Websites] www.kde.org Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: apps.kde.orgAssignee: kde-www mailing-list <kde-www>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: nicolas.fella, phu.nguyen
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nate Graham 2023-05-15 15:06:46 UTC
See the red banner on https://apps.kde.org/powerplant.

But it isn't unmaintained, it's a new app that simply hasn't had a release yet. Because of this, perhaps it shouldn't be listed on apps.kde.org yet... but it certainly shouldn't be listed there as unmaintained.
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2023-05-15 15:09:51 UTC
This might have been fixed with https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/commit/8a4c4552518aaf110413cc42082072489dc0013c

perhaps the site is not up to date
Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2023-05-15 15:55:48 UTC
Same thing for marknote, which is also a new app
Comment 3 Phu H. Nguyen 2023-05-18 07:17:33 UTC
Besides what I've explained in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469807, the "unmaintained" category of apps.k.o is also used to list apps whose categories cannot be determined. Each app should be in at least one category on apps.k.o, so if the categories of an app cannot be determined, the app is hidden in that "unmaintained" category waiting for its appdata/desktop file to be fixed.

The categories of an app are gotten from both "categories" fields of its appdata and desktop files. Possible values for categories are listed in https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html. Other than apps that are manually listed as unmaintained in the apps-k-o repo, the "unmaintained" category now has 4 apps: powerplant, marknote, klevernotes, and kolorfill. The last one does have a "categories" value https://invent.kde.org/games/kolorfill/-/blob/master/src/org.kde.kolorfill.desktop#L95, but it's invalid: it should be "Game" instead of "Games". The first three don't have any suitable "categories" value. After such a value is added, the app will disappear from the "unmaintained" category and appear in the list on the home page as well.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-05-18 14:39:08 UTC
Thanks. Perhaps we need a separate "Uncategorized" category. Definitely we should fix our own apps' metadata, but until that happens, putting them in the "Unmaintained" section seems misleading.

I'll see if I can get them fixed today.
Comment 5 Phu H. Nguyen 2023-05-18 15:18:02 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4)
> Thanks. Perhaps we need a separate "Uncategorized" category. Definitely we
> should fix our own apps' metadata, but until that happens, putting them in
> the "Unmaintained" section seems misleading.
> 
> I'll see if I can get them fixed today.

You are right, I've created an Invent issue to track that https://invent.kde.org/websites/apps-kde-org/-/issues/31
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-05-18 17:47:48 UTC
Hah, looks like Carl beat me to it. All of those apps now have proper categories listed. So this should be fixed as soon as the website notices those changes.