On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Patryk Benderz<[email protected]> wrote: >> ABSTRACT >> I think a new showroom for community created application is needed to > I think instead of creating new showroom it is better to improve > existing ones. >> boost the development and help users to get to know new apps easily. > Wiki does this (applications section)
It does not look good! Wiki is a nice idea, freely editable for everyone - but it just doesn't work for all purposes. >> SETUP >> community, the comment system has alowed us to get in touch with the >> developer/packager and we've seen nice screeshots there to encourage >> us to try apps. Also the release of opkg.org repository was great! > Wiki does this all also. Can't get RSS out with comments. Wiki doesn't create a repository. And - it doesn't look appealing! > >> For Freerunner, we need something like this to do the trick. Being >> easily able to promote applications will inspire devels to write apps >> which the makes the users and other devels more satisfied with >> Freerunner and inspire more developers to participate. Repositories >> are nice but there needs to be a way for people to know what apps are >> now in. Ubuntu with ~30 000 packages doesn't inspire me to try even a > This is untrue my friend, first of all it would be not 30 000 but 27 > 000. But that is not true either because ~25100 of these packages are > backported from Debian. Thus the remeining ~1900 packages belong to > Ubuntu. Thanks for pointing these details out. My point was that a long list of apps and libraries mixed together is not an easy format to go and find the coolest apps. > Regardless of the above, we should not compare Ubuntu/Debian > repositories with opkg.org, simply because opkg is not repository. Not? See http://www.opkg.org/packages ... >> METHODS >> > [...cut] > Or if i didn't convinced you yet - > try to catch opkg author, and convince him to hand over opkg page to > community. Have tried to do that for ~6 months now. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
