Hi! Having looked at apt-portal[1] my vote says that should be used for whatever we're going to build.
Here are some practical questions: 1. Where to read about different distros, or more specifically their packages? What are these magical bb recipes, for example, and to what extent are they relevant to our interests? 2. How exactly does apt-portal build links to package installations? 3. Where does the distro information live in the apt-portal db? 4. How do different distros update their repositories? What I'm meaning here is, that are they using something like dput, for which we could write a hook that publishes the new version in apt-portal when uploaded to stable? 5. We will track testing and unstable as distributions too? Joao, if you see this, how does that testing checkbox in apt-portal work? 6. Where would we host our stuff? I think getting bzr access to apt-portal would be real nice for all the people interested, but is it ok to clutter up apt-portal's bzr with "irrelevant" application-domain stuff like openmoko, instead of just tracking the features that benefit everyone. 7. Upcoming feature: comment and reviews Looking at the apt-portal db schema, it makes most sense to have comments per application, though I am still partially against it ;) Maybe the comments should be tied to distro and version but displayed per application... What do you think? 8. Upcoming feature: application management I'm not sure if this is already supported by apt-portal but I guess not. The idea would be that if someone is the programmer, a part of the programming team, or the packager, or whatever, he would get access to edit the application on the site, to not always bother someone else with it ;) If all that ties together, basically "just running" the upstream repository with some post-publish hooks might maybe make this showroom of ours run itself.. (Of course it would be cool to have our own mirrors and distro management framework etc in the future but that's not relevant to this, at least not this milestone 1 ;) What do you distro maintainers think? apt-portal maintainers? community? Thanks! [1] https://launchpad.net/apt-portal http://wiki.getdeb.net/apt-portal/Download -- mjt _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
