Frank Ludolph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Chris Quenelle wrote:
Bart,
Sounds good!
-- Where do I get UI buy-in for packages showing up in multiple
categories? I assume any UI review process
would be driven by the engineers working on PM, so
first should I file an RFE for PM, and get buy-in from
the engineering team? Or is there someplace else I should start?
You should start that discussion on this list.
When doing the UI design we initially considered placing packages in
multiple categories but decided not to. The reason was to keep the
number of categories/subcategories to a reasonable minimum. The longer
the list of categories the harder it is to find a likely candidate
category. In the end it is a balancing act between the number of
categories and the number of entries in a category.
Your concerns can be addressed via search. While SunStudioExpress is
categorized under "Integrated Development Environment", you can search
for "C++" and see both SunStudioExpress and Netbeans. This is dependent
on the packages having good descriptions, but this isn't really any
different than insuring a package would be categorized into all the
appropriate categories. And packages should still have good descriptions.
Note that metadata designed to facilitate finding packages
is readily added to package manifests. For example, w/
the new search soon arriving:
set name=pkg.tag value=compiler value=ide value=debugger
would cause the containing package to be found if someone
types
pkg search compiler
or
pkg search debugger
- Bart
--
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