Bart Smaalders wrote:
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
Excellent! I have been wanting a true keyword search.
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