Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:47:49 -0700:
> Would it be possible to add the tree categories as products and the > packages as components thereof? That would significantly increase the > odds of correct assignment, because we could save the per-package > assignees in the database. ++ I've wondered since I first began working with Gentoo why we couldn't just do something simple like that. The way it's setup now has got to be the most obtuse, non-intuitive organization for a simple user to try to navigate and actually get right, that I've ever seen. Something simple like cat/pkg would definitely be easier for the newbie user than having everything (well, pretty much everything a user's going to file bugs on, anyway) under "Gentoo Linux" /except/ a few things like portage, and then trying to figure out whether (say) a non-core KDE sound app goes in KDE, apps, sound, or ebuilds because it's an ebuild bug, or what. What would it take to make it tri-level? Then put just two choices at the top level, like so: Level 1: package-tree, all-other Level 2: 2-tree: <cat> 2-other: infra, admin, docs, rel-media Level 3: 3-<cat>: pkg 3-infra: mirrors, website, bugz, infra-other 3-admin: userrel, devrel, recruitement, admin-other 3-docs: doc-trans, docs-gentoo, docs-not-gentoo 3-rel-media: ... If we went 4-level we could then add what's currently components under some of the top-level stuff. To me, that'd be about the most logical and intuitive layout possible, but it'd take at least three levels to do right. The two-way tree/non- tree split at the top, and cat/pkg on the tree side, would /vastly/ simplify bug filing for most users. I know the first few times I filed a Gentoo bug, I was asking myself if Gentoo /deliberately/ made it obtuse, because I couldn't figure out how it could /possibly/ be that unintuitive by mere accident. The product as a separate page did make things easier, but all one has to do is take a look at the notes on the page to see it's still anything but intuitive. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
