On 08/26/2009 02:33 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Martin Bacovsky<mbacovsk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Monday 24 August 2009 14:36:09 drago01 wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi<a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 08/23/2009 10:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>> >>>>> Aren't we pitching Fedora Community interface as the end user facing >>>>> thing, going forward? It seems some of these features will overlap or >>>>> duplicate it. >>>>> >>>> It's possible. The packagedb is going to be the backend for the Fedora >>>> Community Front end so it had to get written this summer so that work on >>>> the front-end can proceed. >>> >>> For the front-end to be end user suitable it should: >>> >>> * List applications rather than packages >>> * Group them >>> * Provide some kind of rating system to show "best rated" or "most downloaded" >>> * Use the application icon if it has one >>> * Make use of the packagekit browser plugin for installation >>> >> >> This was actually the goal of Amber project https://fedorahosted.org/amber/wiki/Definition. The project stalled for almost a year. Then I wanted to join and take over Amber development but we decided to better move the features into pkgdb and work together. > > I don't think pkgdb is the right place for this it can serve as a > backend (better would be to just access the underlying db directly, > for performance reasons), but the frontend is to developer and package > oriented. > * You might be right. Tying this into fedora community is a possibility. * Since the backend lives in the pkgdb, there needs to be some sort of UI there. The packagedb has grown a lost of end user features over the summer so the focus is no longer so developer-centric and this goes along with it. -Toshio
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