On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:50 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 22:44 +0800, Izhar Firdaus wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:01 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote > > > > Or do J5 have different view about this?, both idea ( improve MyFedora > > > > / improve PackageDB ) sounds okay to me, just that I feel that if > > > > MyFedora implements those features, PackageDB and the effort made for > > > > it previously would be rendered of no-use (or perhaps thats what one > > > > of MyFedora's goal - to obsolete packagedb ) .. > > > > > > There is a balance here. For everything I have to pull from there is a > > > cost in terms of calls I have to make to different backends per page > > > along with the extra work to recreate the GUI for each module. The > > > different backends are taking a tools centric approach to manipulating > > > data where as My Fedora takes a more data centric approach (here is the > > > data how would I like to manipulate and display). I agree the data side > > > > In other words, instead of calling interfaces provided by these > > backends (which is, obviously, more costly) , MyFedora will be > > directly access the databases and manipulate the data to be in a more > > user-centric and useful views (am I right?). > > I generally do not want to talk to a DB directly though if performance > becomes an issue I might have to. Generally it goes > > MyFedora <-json-> mfquery proxy <-json/xmlrpc etc.-> Fedora Resource > <-db connection-> DB. > > MyFedora but it would take longer and I would have to replicate the > logic for determining if a user is allowed to modify. If it changed in > bodhi MyFedora would be out of sync and the user would be presented with > inconstant UI. > > > > > of it should be part of PackageDB but unless someone really wants to > > > work on a separate PackageDB UI I would just have that be a simple dump > > > of the database in a slightly nicer form. > > > In your opinion, which would be better? a project which adds value to PackageDB or a project which focuses on the PackageDB related integration with MyFedora ? -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃 「あまの ひかる」 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
