[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Thu Oct 7 12:10:11 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:36, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
+> Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+>> Maybe a rating/voting/popularity system should be available, however in the
+>> past people had complained about privacy issues, which I think may have
+>> resulted in little effort being put into completion of drakstats.
+>>
+>> So, maybe a web site should also be developed, which allows users to also
+>> access package rating information, and which provides some kind of
+>> installation feature.
+>
+> Yes this web site could :
+> - allow package rating
+> - show download stats (if possible)
+> - show recent versions updates (with the highest rating packages more visible than an obscure lib :))
+> - allow backport / new package requests (I know, bugzilla used to be the place where you did that previously, but can't we find a way to link both). This way packagers would have more visibility on the user's needs.
+
+You describe quite what Kiosk was designed for (and what most App
+Store are nowadays anyway).
+
+> OK, buchan, how do we start ? Shall we put improvements proposals (UI, website, ...) on the wiki, on
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate ?
+
+No, these are two different things. Above wiki page is for stating a
+perceived problem, and detailing what people view should be (or not
+be) done.
+
+Stating the need for, and specifying/scratching a web-based (or
+semi-web-based) UI for a socially augmented software library is
+another thing.
+
+
+Romain
+