Hello!
>> * We must find some clever way to get a response from the user
>> since we cannot trust "the masses" (our masses are not of
>> equal size then that of debian).
>> * For example: What about the program manager on the device
>> periodically
>> requests a rating from you for newly installed applications.
>> There will of course be a way to switch it off, and the the
>> notification must not violently jump into the middle of the
>> screen swinging its broadsword, disturbing my circles.
>
> We might discuss about this feature in the Application Manager. However,
> if you find this idea useful it would be faster and probably better to
> start with an installable 3rd party application covering this
> functionality and targeted to maemo power users.
I checked again. It seems like libcurl can do the "fake HTTP requests to
at ratings to the application catalog". I already have code for browsing
package lists. So I should be able to:
* Show list of packages (in user-section) that were not rated or where
there was a rating for an earlier version (can I re-rate applications if
the version changed? Should be possible IMHO => Karma!?).
* Request rating (0-5 stars plus free form text).
* Initiate upload of rating(s) using curl and fake HTTP form POSTs.
But:
* There will be no periodic notifications because that would mean to
always run in the background... or is there a way to do power-safe-aware
cron jobs!?
* User still has to have an account and must type in password.
* I possibly has to guess the downloads.maemo.org application name from
the package name. Here we should definitely try to define a header in
the deb file!
I also would like to have a bug tracking functionality as part of the
applications, since I have a few users that have problems with the
package installation.
I could let the user choose the package and then collect information
about package version, version of dependencies, device model and OS
version. I could even look for a .desktop file, start the binary and
collect console output.
And if the rating fake works one could even make a bugzilla ticket from
it... However in this case we likely needs some help from deb headers, too.
=> I'll do it! Give me some time...
--
Gruß...
Tim
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