[Mageia-dev] Various proposals around backports and other media management

Wed Oct 6 18:19:59 CEST 2010

+Le mercredi 6 octobre 2010 12:20:54, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 
+> Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 23:06 +0100, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+> > On Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:46:45 Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> 
+> > > Some user communities already did that for 3rd party
+> > > repositories for Mandriva, and having it in a centralized and visible
+> > > place would make backports more visible. How many users know that latest
+> > > versions for wine, wesnoth (one of the best opensource games), vlc, and
+> > > many other packages are already available in backports media for mandriva
+> > > ? Today there is a changelog mailing list, but this is not for everyone.
+> > > This would be more user-centric than packager-centric. I tried to improve
+> > > backports visibility on the Mandriva forum, but without any automation it
+> > > took an enormous amount of time to maintain :
+> > > http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum.php?f=123 (see threads beginning with
+> > > "New Soft" or "Backport")
+> > 
+> > RSS feed or use of twitter by build system may be useful ....
+> 
+> Youri already have RSS, afaik. 
+> http://www.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/youri/soft/submit/trunk/lib/Youri/Submit/Step/Action/RSS.pm?revision=2100&view=markup
+> 
+> Twitter/statusnet could be easy to add , according to
+> http://status.net/wiki/Libraries , this would quite trivial 
+> 
+> I even think that a plugin to post on a forum could be done. A little
+> bit less trivial, but I am ok to work on it, once everything we have is
+> running.
+
+There's some part that is manual, that's why I thought some part could be automated, then part of the documentation team (which I would join for this task) would have to :
+- explain what changed (and/or copy the changelog from the projects site for version updates)
+- add screenshots of the software (it just looks good with screenshots, and you see
+
+That's why I thought that a dedicated place on the website (must join the webmaster team for that... How many teams will I join ? :p) would be better than the forum, but this is debatable. Another reason is that the website may be translated (update annouces in your own langage is a real plus), whereas I don't think it'll be easy with the forum.
+
+However, before having the full-featured thing, why not start by automated posts to the forum !
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel
+
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