On 8/25/09, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <da...@tuxbrain.com> wrote: > <snip> >> How should different distributions be combined in the showroom? >> -> >> This is difficult since package information from different repositories >> is is likely to differ. That means for example: should we use the >> description provided by SHR or the one from Gentoo? >> My first thought was, to just use information from SHR and if the same >> application is available in a different distro add something like "Also >> available for Gentoo". This is flawed however because maybe a package >> provided by Gentoo isn't available in SHR and just putting it into "not >> categorized" feels wrong. >> So im my opinion there should be a showroom for each distribution. This >> way it is easy to display distribution specific information on an >> application. > I a little disagree with you here, I like the vision of the apt-get > portal to be aplication-centric instead of distro-centric, I agree to > extract info form the repos , and this info will be useful to > initialize the bd, etc but the users will have the availability to > enrich this descriptions and adding pics and vids, comments, voting, > karma and whatever fancy thing we want/can include and all this will > be managed by the showroom it self, > an application will have some characteristics and those can be > perfectly in what distro/machine/version is included and the level of > working state but is assumed than if is included in a distro will have > some level of usable state >> >> Isn't it very inefficient to have several showrooms (one per >> distribution)? >> -> >> Not neccessarily. Completely unrelated showrooms would of course result >> in additional work. For example one would upload similar or even the >> same screenshots several times for different distributions. >> A good solution would be to relate these showrooms together. That means >> to have a kind of "masterlist" were all applications from all >> distributions are collected. Screenshots and comments aren't attached >> to an application in a single showroom, but to the name of the >> application on the "masterlist". >> When viewing an application on the SHR-showroom displayed information >> comes from bb-files, but screenshots and comments come from the >> "masterlist". If viewing the same application on the Gentoo-showroom >> the same screenshots and comments would be showed, but the application >> information and category may differ. > As said before I prefer only one distro agnostic showroom, much more > easy to mantain , and if some one only wants to navigate trough only > one distro apps, use a filter. >> >> Maybe comments should be tagged so one can toggle between "Show all" >> and "Show distribution specific". > Good point >> >> >> Do we want to support more hardware than the Freerunner? >> -> >> Definitely yes, or have you forgotten about the neo-gta01 pioneers? >> And in case someday gta03/gta02core really materializes it >> deserves a place in the showroom, too. However I still have to think >> more about supporting multiple hardware. Maybe someone else with good >> thoughts on this? > Just another field on the characteristics of the app to be filled. >> >> Please excuse my shiftless examples including SHR and Gentoo only, >> other distris are great, too ;) > Your are welcome ;) >> >> jxs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > > > -- > David Reyes Samblas Martinez > http://www.tuxbrain.com > Open ultraportable & embedded solutions > Openmoko, Openpandora, Arduino > Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
Well, app-oriented showroom will be easier to maintain (well, i'm not sure about that), but less useful for users and applications using data from that showroom (about that i'm sure :P). Also, I would love to see self-built packages abbandoned at all and not used in such showroom, as they only produce mess and problems. -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community