CLUSTER APPSTREAM-METADATA-SOFTWARE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-08-10
AppStream metadata tooling
The cluster consists of tools for reading, writing, validating, and generating AppStream metadata, including a desktop editor, command-line utilities, and libraries. The dated entry history is too thin (only four dated entries) to discern a trend, and no member shows significant traction—the top three activity signals all have zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled
Operator · 4 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01AppStream CLI0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility for reading, writing, and validating AppStream metadata.
- 02AppStream Generator0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceTool that generates AppStream metadata catalogs for software distributions from packaging data.
- 03appstream-glib0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLibrary for reading, writing, and validating AppStream metadata for software components.
- 04AppStream Generator0★unknownliveDeveloper tool that generates AppStream metadata for software distributions from package repositories.
- 05jdAppStreamEdit0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that allows users to create and edit AppStream metadata files, including release management and previews for software centers.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.