On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 09:38:46PM -0500, Brendan Early wrote: > Hi all, > > Fedora Packages Static is intended to replace the old Fedora > Packages app and is now available for testing at > https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org. Any feedback would be > appreciated here or on Pagure at > https://pagure.io/fedora-packages-static. Which pages is it supposed to replace? What is the relation to https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/? > The app is designed to function with the minimum amount of dynamic > server components needed. Pages are statically generated using a > Python script; the only dynamically generated page is the search > result page. Data is updated hourly. Search is handled externally by > an instance of Apache Solr. Clients do not need JS to use the app. That sounds good. I can confirm that the staging site seems snappy. > Thanks to Timothée Floure for the original version of Fedora > Packages Static and Kevin Fenzi for helping deploy the app on > OpenShift. Some initial comments: - the search results page seems … messy. Would it be possible to group results by parent package? E.g. https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/search?query=systemd returns four pages of results, and a large number of entries is for subpackages. Grouping them would make it easier to find other interesting packages which are not part of the main package. Maybe also sort the results somehow? I think the method that dnf uses is pretty good: result are grouped by how they are matched: "Name Exactly Matched", "Name & Summary Matched", "Name Matched", "Summary Matched". And within each group, results are sorted alphabetically. This gives a "clean" look (also because subpackages tend to be grouped together), gives the most relevant result first, and still makes it easy to scan the list. - A search result for a subpackage links to a page for that subpackage. That's more confusing than useful: https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/systemd-networkd/ shows the description for systemd-networkd, but all the information is actually for systemd source package. I think linking to a single page named after the source package would be more useful to users. Subpackages should be listed on this page. This is how Debian/Ubuntu to it. (It would also seem quite natural if the results were grouped by source package, as suggested above.) [EDIT: Oh, I see that this is done to an extent, the main package has "Subpackages" section. Unfortunately this doesn't take into account that different Fedora releases can have different sets of subpackages. This information is very important to users too.] - Related to the above: source package names are unique. Binary package names are also unique for any given release of Fedora/EPEL/ELN/etc, but not unique globally. There's an epel-only systemd-extras source package which also builds systemd-networkd binary subpackage. But right now the name is "occupied" by one of the subpackages, and no information is shown for the other one. It would be even worse if there was an epel-only systemd-networkd source package, because the main package couldn't be shown at all. Putting both binary and source packages under the same prefix https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/ cannot work. - Are the descriptions takes from some old release? For systemd I see "built from the 245.4-stable branch of systemd" while even f32 has 245.9 now. - Whitespace in descriptions is squished. E.g. https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/systemd-swap/ looks very strange. Generally package descriptions are supposed to be preformatted text that fits in 80 columns. I don't think it should be wrapped at all. 'dnf info systemd-swap' looks good; https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemd-swap does a reasonable job, except that it centers everything; https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/systemd-swap/ is hard to read. - There's "Recent Activity" at the bottom. For some packages this works, but for others it only shows "Loading…". I see "TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource" shown for a fraction of a second. - "SCM" links to a page that calls itself "fedora PACKAGE SOURCES" and that everybody seems to refer to as "dist-git" or "pagure" in conversations. Maybe it would be better to call the link "sources" or "dist-git source" or "package source"? (And "FAF" links to "retrace.fedoraproject.org" page that calls itself "ABRT Analytics". I don't even know what to suggest here ;| .) - https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/systemd-swap/ has a number of broken images in the "Recent Activity" part. Since that's generated content, it's not so easy to see what's going on… I hope that's useful feedback. Thanks for working on this! Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
