Le 2010-11-03 18:27, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
Hello to everyone,
While things are setting up (infrastructure, teams...), which will allow us all
to begin real work on our new linux distribution as soon as possible, a new
project is coming to life. We want to produce a website dedicated to mageia's
packages, and whose main goals would be :
- allow to browse the package database, provide the main informations about
packages, like any other distribution does (see
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for example).
- focus on interaction between users, testers and packagers (backports requests
and voting, new soft requests and voting, and the other way round : testing
requests from packagers to users)
- customizable user notifications on your home page, RSS feed or e-mail (new
backport available for you preferred soft, new update candidate available and
awaiting testing...)
I tried to explain this project there :
http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/MageiaAppDb
It was announced yesterday during the founders meeting :
http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings
The project is at its very beginning, and the task is huge, so we'll proceed
step by step. You can see our temporary roadmap here :
http://github.com/agallou/mageia-app-db/wiki/ROADMAP
We will probably need help, however this is too soon for me to say exactly on
what parts of the project (testing, development, translation, artwork...). I'll
send a mail to the mageia-webteam mailing list to discuss this with people who
are interested, in the following days (apart from this thread, future
discussion on the project will mainly happen on the mageia-webteam mailing
list).
Right now, I'm mainly interested in your comments on this project, and also
welcome any suggestions about the needs we have to answer (did we forget
something ?), and ideas of functionalities. It doesn't mean we'll be able to
implement everything, but at this stage I want to envision every possible idea
:)
Best regards
Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)
From a user's point of view, this sounds exciting and exactly what a
user would use. The name is OK with me, but then I am used to the Wine
AppDB pages: http://appdb.winehq.org/. The software package screen shots
are pretty important from a user's point of view.
An explanation in plain-easy-to-read-and-understand language, would be
nice.
Nice project! And a nice selling point to Mageia.
Marc
