Hi all... I've been playing a bit more with the App Manager as of late, and while its not the most robust application in the world, its clearly important and needed.
One thing I was doing (during a particularly painful conference call :-) was browse through the repositories to see what packages were available.While the "summary-1-liner" provided enough context in some occasions, on others I found myself googling the "summary data" to get a more general overview. After having done that for a while it started getting old. I think that (especially for people new to OpenSolaris/Unix/GNU/OSS packages ... but perhaps also future commercial packages) the package manager could use another little "TAB" down at the bottom, with a detailed description of the package. Is a detailed description (beyond the 10-word summary) of the package already a part of the IPS meta-data? (cool multi-language/locale opportunity there). If such a (details) tab is created in the package manager application, can we tie this "details tab" into some sort of wiki so the community can help populate it (multi-language/locale). At that point we'd need to either leave the data in the wiki, or mine it into the IPS package as meta-data so that it can be displayed into the package manager details tab based on a customer's locale... We'd need locale-experts to somehow be the gatekeepers for their own sections -- allowing the community to contribute, yet not invite total anarchy. (is there already such a thing on wikipedia somewhere that we can just tap into? something along the lines of: http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/ but perhaps a little more dynamic, locale-aware, community maintained, for more than pure GNU packages?) The easy answer is -- sure go ahead and write it... sadly thats beyond my abilities at this point, but in either case, having a details tab is 1 thing, having the community help populate it is something else. Anyone have any advice /interest on getting something like this going? (while I cant help with the APP, I can gate-keeper the Dutch locales if thats how things develop) thanks, -- MikeE
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