A few thoughts from a casual user... Why would one want to use a repository?
Well, you would like to get good code that helps you become more productive by not having to do everything by yourself. But how do you find good code that can help you with your particular problem? If I go to the Erlware repository on the web I get a flat list - not optimal. If I go to CEAN I get a break-down based on the type of application and one lien about each application - this is a bit better, since it gives me an idea about if a certain application could solve my problem. If I go to trapexit.org (this is by memory since that site down right now) I get a web-crawled list of application from all over the place - again with a one-liner as explanation, that might give me a hint about the chance of finding something to solve my problem. If I go to http://boardgamegeek.com/ then I can easily search, browse and what-have-you regarding board games - news, descriptions, reviews, ratings, session stories, alternative game rules, version information et cetera. Try to navigate around a bit and I think you can see how it works. This is what I want for software - this is where I think Erlware should aim to go. I want to hear from people if they use a given package and how much they like it. I want to hear from people how they use it. Github has some of this, but I would like to detach the author part from the user part by having a community of users instead of a community of developers. I think this will lead to better information. I want Wikipedia + Amazon + Github in one wrapping. This is by no means an easy task, but I think that this is what will make a significant difference. The current situation with Erlware - in my view - is that the tools have reached a level of maturity that allows you to build something on top of them. But something on top is needed in my view. Cheers, Torben On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 19:35, Eric Merritt <[email protected]> wrote: > Samuel, > > You are basically echoing what me and martin have been talking about as > well. That is the direction we are definitely planning to go. It doesn't > mean we wont be doing any tools work. There are many incremental features > that we would like to add, but it does mean building a rock solid repository > with a very good packaging spec. Thats our goal right now and probably what > we will talk about in this first call. > > We have a few ideas floating around for doing that, we will probably talk > about it a bit on thursday. > > In any case, you are absolutely right that is where our focus must, must, > must be. > > Eric > > El oct 27, 2010, a las 11:42 a.m., Samuel escribió: > > > Hi all, > > > > I most likely wont be able to attend the meeting, but I already > > discussed with Martin my view on the project (sadly, I admit I'm > > becoming less and less involved). The most relevant point I tried to > > make is that I felt that the main goal I understood Erlware was > > pursuing was something like "building a strong software community > > around a trusted and reliable repository of open source erlang > > products." However, much effort is put in the tools around the > > repository and little in the repository itself. > > > > That's not to say that focusing on the tools is a wrong idea, but that > > that project, always in my view, was drifting apart from the original > > idea. That could essentially for three reasons: either my idea of > > "original idea" was wrong, or the original idea was wrong, or the > > strategy was wrong. > > > > Just something I'd like to know your thoughts, cause I'm sure you were > > thinking a lot about this :) > > > > Best > > > > On 27 October 2010 17:24, Eric Merritt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Everyone, > >> > >> As many of you know the core group of Erlware guys have finished up > nearly all the things that have been eating so much of our time for the last > few years. Now it is time for some serious heads down development of > Erlware. To that end we implementing a few interesting changes. > >> > >> Martin and I often have conversations about the direction and we are > planning to take. We recently realized that these conversations are > massively important to the direction of our project. However, we would very > much like to let in the Erlware community. So we are going to try a weekly > conference call, where the core group of folks at Erlware is going to plan > directions and talk about problems. We encourage participation, but if you > would just like to listen that is perfectly fine as well. Everyone is > invited and the call information is described be. > >> > >> We can discuss agenda for this first meeting in this thread. I suggest > that we talk lay down our general direction to get started. > >> > >> > >> 1. Please join my meeting, Thursday, October 28 at 12:30 PM CDT. > >> https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/491562408 > >> > >> 2. 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