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

Tue May 15 09:12:15 CEST 2012

Le mardi 15 mai 2012 09:10:48, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 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%2C
+> > > > 20 %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.
+> 
+
+And I can make the list of applications really comprehensive rather easily.
+