On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > -> Still I think there's a need for a platform to promote ~working > apps in an appealing way.
Yes that's true and I think that opkg.org is doing just that. Only few small parts are missing. 1) Use it rather as nice showroom, not as opkg/deb repo 2) Voting UP/DOWN for popularity and showing most popular packages for section/task, maybe iven UP/DOWN buttons for "I would like to test it/use it or I need exactly something like this" - someone please provide package for my distribution. 3) opkg/deb or manuall installation instructions only in first phase when its unknown package from unknown developer :) 4) then community-editable list of distributions where it works/doesn't work. 5) same list with sign if its included in standard repo of that distribution and if its not included, user should provide a link to distribution bug tracker where is package request for that application and everyone could provide bbfile/src.deb as attachment in that bug, its quite easy. Distro maintainers than could check if that package is really that popular and if someone from users/developer itself provided working bbfile then commit it to their branch, remove link to bug tracker and set sign, thats already included. Maybe just table like this | distribution | works | doesn't work | I would like to use it | Included | Package request | | shr-unstable | 10 + - | 2 + - | 40 + - | Yes | link-fixed | | shr-stable | 2 + - | 0 + - | 400 + - | No (_Yes_) | link | | debian | 12 + - | 0 + - | 4 + - | No (_Yes_) | _add_link_ | | _add new distribution_ | where + - would be voting links > > Very last words: > > Please do not put anything up, when there is no time / resources to > > maintain it. It would be a shame to waste so much efforts > +1! +1! IMHO only few improvements of opkg.org are needed.. -- uin:136542059 jid:martin.ja...@gmail.com Jansa Martin sip:jama...@voip.wengo.fr JaMa
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