appcast-brainstorming

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Appcast Brainstorming

The purpose of this page is to capture software updates practices in the wild, as one effort to codify practices currently used in the automatic update system called Sparkle.

Authors

Context

Sites like iusethis.com, http://versiontracker.com, http://macupdate.com and http://download.com among others should be investigated and documented for object names and attributes.

Among common data in a software update changelog are changes or fixes, completed bugs, new features or modified behavior, and known issues. A version number is also typically supplied, but takes on many forms and is not always numeric.

Lastly, this work should be seen as compatible with hAtom, possibly as a prelude to a format that could be embedded as the payload of an hfeed object.

Work should be carried out on the Appcast Examples page.