Hi, I had same idea few days before, but without web interface/portal part and implemented as SHR-settings extension module. Although cooperation between SHR (or OpenEmbedded) repository and opkg.org as wiki-like community reviewed application directory would be great improvement.
Related projects for possible collaboration or just for inspiration: http://django.sspaeth.de/opkg/ http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/ Qt Moko package manager Some implementation thoughts: Applications should be automatically imported from SHR feeds. Also applications should be sorted and filtered by sections, which are already implemented in opkg.[1] Popularity Contest like in Debian would be nice feature.[2] Fortunately somebody already started it.[3] [1] http://django.sspaeth.de/sections/ [2] http://popcon.debian.org/ [3] https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/PopularityContest Greatings, Martix 2010/6/15 Esben Damgaard <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I would like some opinions on my idea, so I'm writing here. > > I miss an application that can show the available applications. So some sort > of frontend to opkg. It should only show actual applications and not > libraries, so to make this possible there needs to be a downloadable list > the program can get of which categories/apps there are. > This could be something like opkg.org, except there would only be programs > that are in the official repositories. But I like the concept that a lot of > people can maintain the list of apps to show. I don't think the site should > be used by end users though. If the site would be for end users, there would > be a lot more work to do (so I don't like that..). > > I could make both these things, but I'd appreciate some help with the > Freerunner application. But if I'm going to work on the application, it > should be made with Vala and elementary. > The web application I could easily make myself in PHP and MySQL. Nothing > fancy, just something that does the job. > > What do people think? > > > Esben > _______________________________________________ > Shr-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel > _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
