Il giorno ven, 02/12/2011 alle 16.37 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:39:31PM +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > > packagedb seems an interesting project, for storing ratings and reviews, > > and it could be a candidate to replace the Ubuntu backend. Is there some > > documentation somewhere? Does it provide some webservice API (REST, > > JSON, SOAP, anything) > > > It does. Many of the URLs that you can use to view information in a web > browser will return the equivalent information as JSON data. Not all of the > URLs are fast enough for what you may want to do with them now, though -- we > may want to craft some custom methods that give you the information you need > faster or in bulk. Another option for some of the things is to have users > enter it into the packagedb but to export it via the repodata. This was > done for the tag information for instance. From reading one of Richard's > review request bugs, it looks like people wished to do the same thing with > icons but there were possible legal problems with that approach (the legal > problem seemed to cover distributing the icons in either the repodata or > a package :-( ) so you'd probably need to pioneer a different approach here. Uhm... curl -H "Accept: application/json" https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Terminal results in 500 Internal error. Also, packagedb seems to be coalescing different packages and apps in one (same example: konsole, gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal are all in the same page). As for repodata, you mention tags, but I can't find them here, in primary, comps or other (and I don't see anything else in mirrors). Lastly, for icons, if legal says it's inacceptable to have a package/repodata blob with all of them, we could download them from packagedb on demand, where apparently you have them. I doubt that though, as other distros are packaging them without problems. > There's also a good chance that we'll encounter some pieces of data that > a software center would like to use but that we aren't storing or making > public at the moment. If it's already present in the packages or something > that users would contribute we can look into how to make that available for > the software center to use. > > This will take coding time, however, so it would be something that you (or > whoever is interested in working on backend support for the software center) > would need to be willing to sink some time into. That's exactly why I'm here: to offer my time to build a great app software installation story for the next Fedora. Giovanni
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