[Mageia-marketing] See package changes between Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 by using Mageia App Db

Tue May 15 09:10:48 CEST 2012

Le mardi 15 mai 2012 09:03:29, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le lundi 14 mai 2012 12:55:48, Patricia Fraser a écrit :
+> > Stormi,
+> > 
+> > > Just in case it can help you in your task of promoting Mageia 2, here
+> > > is a link to get a comparison between Mageia 1 and Mageia 2.
+> > > 
+> > > * new packages are in green background
+> > > * updated packages in white background
+> > > 
+> > > http://mageia.madb.org/package/comparison/source/1/application/0
+> > > 
+> > > This shows source packages. The "show only applications" and "regular
+> > > packages" led me to some SQL errors I must investigate, so meanwhile
+> > > I advise to not use them on this page.
+> > > 
+> > > The group filter should work fine, for example here is the same page
+> > > for games only:
+> > > 
+> > > http://mageia.madb.org/package/comparison/application/0/group/78%2C20
+> > > %2 C64%2C10%2C30%2C46%2C74%2C1/source/1
+> > > 
+> > > (It's still a demo instance for Mageia App Db, it's not running on
+> > > Mageia servers yet)
+> > 
+> > I am thinking about adding a link to madb in the Blog post for release
+> > - what do you think?
+> 
+> It would be good if madb was on mageia.org servers, but right now this is
+> only a demo version so I'm not sure we should get users accustomed to the
+> current URL.
+> 
+> I sure would like such a highlight on the project, but I'm not sure we're
+> ready for it technically either (performance issues, especially on that
+> page).
+> 
+> So better copy the result, make it a static page somewhere on wiki or
+> other location.
+> 
+> Also, the list of "applications" is not comprehensive, some applications
+> are wrongly seen as technical packages currently, so you need the "show
+> all packages" filter, which doesn't work on mageia.madb.org currently. I
+> fixed the issues that prevented the page from showing when there are
+> many packages on a dev instance. It's still slow but at least it works.
+> Here is a link: http://dev2.madb.org/package/comparison/application/0
+> 
+> Samuel
+
+On second thought, I might be able to solve the performance issue with some 
+caching, so it the fact that it's a demo instance and not the final one is 
+not a blocker, then why not.
+
+Samuel
+