On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:36, Samuel Verschelde <sto...@laposte.net> wrote: > Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit : >> Maybe a rating/voting/popularity system should be available, however in the >> past people had complained about privacy issues, which I think may have >> resulted in little effort being put into completion of drakstats. >> >> So, maybe a web site should also be developed, which allows users to also >> access package rating information, and which provides some kind of >> installation feature. > > Yes this web site could : > - allow package rating > - show download stats (if possible) > - show recent versions updates (with the highest rating packages more visible > than an obscure lib :)) > - allow backport / new package requests (I know, bugzilla used to be the > place where you did that previously, but can't we find a way to link both). > This way packagers would have more visibility on the user's needs.
You describe quite what Kiosk was designed for (and what most App Store are nowadays anyway). > OK, buchan, how do we start ? Shall we put improvements proposals (UI, > website, ...) on the wiki, on > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate ? No, these are two different things. Above wiki page is for stating a perceived problem, and detailing what people view should be (or not be) done. Stating the need for, and specifying/scratching a web-based (or semi-web-based) UI for a socially augmented software library is another thing. Romain
