On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:28 +0100, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: > Ferenc Szekely wrote: > > On 8/9/07, Vlad Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neil raised a very important point in his mail: categories and control > > of the repository. We could experiment with the categories in this > > "extras-testing" repository. First we would need a proposal of > > categories. The best would be to write this on a wiki page. Neil, > > would you mind coming up with a draft? > > > > From this initial list that I see on my N800 today: > > Accessories <---- Too general? Includes evince, would Office be a better > choice? > Applications <---- Again, too general? > cli <---- All lowercase, and pretty meaningless > Communication <---- Only contains VNC, and gets it about right > connectivity <---- Again all lowercase, contains mnotify... hmmm > Communication?? > Daemon <---- Only dropbear, maybe Communication? > Daemons <---- Can never have enough Daemons > extras <---- Lowercase again, contains microb-refui whatever that > is... > Games > graphics <---- Contains an image viewer (mirage) - "Image Viewers" as > a category? > home-applet <---- So good it needed it's own home-applet category > instantmessaging <--- Bless you, Pidgin but what's wrong with Communication? > Locales <---- Is this really necessary? Again, it's Pidgin > misc <---- Insightful (not) > Multimedia > Office > Other <---- Mostly gaming related (fceu, visualboyadvance, xmame > etc.)! > Programming <---- Python, could have gone in Support maybe? > Protocols <---- More Pidgin! > religion <---- rrrrrrrr! > sound <---- kmplayer, what's wrong with the Multimedia category?! > Support <---- Would seem like a good category for locales, runtimes > and other stuff > Themes > Tools <---\ > Utilities <---- Tools/Utilities/utils... one category to rule them all? > utils <---/ > web <---- privoxy... how about Daemon, Communication or > connectivity? > Web <---- wordpress... Communication or Applications perhaps > > I've produced the following subset of broad categories for consideration: > > Communications > Games > Graphics > Multimedia > Office (or perhaps Business Tools?) > Programming > Support > Themes > Utilities (or perhaps Tools?) > > Something like FBReader should probably go in the Office category (as it > relates to document viewing though not necessarily Word/Excel format), which > suggests Office may not be a good title... maybe a Document Viewer category > (distinct from document creation tools which should be in "Office"). > > Applications such as xterm would be categorised as Utilities. Dropbear and > ssh could be categorised as Utilities *OR* Communications - should all > command line tools be placed in a single category for that purpose or treated > the same as GUI packages? Perhaps a "Command Line" category would be > appropriate. > > Pidgin would be categorised as Communications, however Pidgin protocols might > be categorised as Support, as would any locales (eg. Skype). However in order > to simplify installation for the user there may be an argument to keep all > packages associated with the main application in the same category, such that > all Pidgin sound and protocol packages are categorised as "Communications" > too. > > Any thoughts? > Guys, let's finish with category list and we will be ready to create garage-testing repo.
So far we have two lists which are pretty much similar to each other: Neils' list: Communications Games Graphics Multimedia Office (or perhaps Business Tools?) Programming Support Themes Utilities (or perhaps Tools?) And Marius' list: Communication Games Multimedia Office Programming Support Themes Accessories Other Tools Common part of these 2 lists is: Communication Games Multimedia Office Programming Support Themes Tools, so we should only decide which of these categories would be better to include into the list: Accessories Other Graphics I'd propose to include only Graphics. 'Accessories', as Neil stated, is too general. 'Other' is bad, because people would be using it instead of requesting new category. What do you think? -- Ed Bartosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nokia-M/Helsinki _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers