On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:36:16PM +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: >I a little disagree with you here, I like the vision of the apt-get >portal to be aplication-centric instead of distro-centric, I agree to >extract info form the repos , and this info will be useful to >initialize the bd, etc but the users will have the availability to >enrich this descriptions and adding pics and vids, comments, voting, >karma and whatever fancy thing we want/can include and all this will >be managed by the showroom it self, >an application will have some characteristics and those can be >perfectly in what distro/machine/version is included and the level of >working state but is assumed than if is included in a distro will have >some level of usable state
It can't really be app-centric because apps have versions, major and minor, and distributions (can) have "vendor patches" and whatever. It's simply not fair to anyone to have app-centric comments, they need to be in context. >> Isn't it very inefficient to have several showrooms (one per >> distribution)? >> -> >> Not neccessarily. Completely unrelated showrooms would of course result >> in additional work. For example one would upload similar or even the >> same screenshots several times for different distributions. >> A good solution would be to relate these showrooms together. That means >> to have a kind of "masterlist" were all applications from all >> distributions are collected. Screenshots and comments aren't attached >> to an application in a single showroom, but to the name of the >> application on the "masterlist". >> When viewing an application on the SHR-showroom displayed information >> comes from bb-files, but screenshots and comments come from the >> "masterlist". If viewing the same application on the Gentoo-showroom >> the same screenshots and comments would be showed, but the application >> information and category may differ. >As said before I prefer only one distro agnostic showroom, much more >easy to mantain , and if some one only wants to navigate trough only >one distro apps, use a filter. I still have to test apt-portal and I encourage others to do that too, because if it delivers 99% of what we need, then I suggest we go with whatever it offers and build on that. Knowing from experience that building these things from scratch is a lot of work... -- mjt _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
