Application for GSoC Project - Package WebUI
Izhar Firdaus
kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 14:44:53 UTC 2008
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:01 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> 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?).
> 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 any case my thoughts on the subject are logged somewhere else in the
> thread where I talk about Apps vs. Packages and how a separate app would
> look different from a My Fedora app. Read there.
I couldnt find the thread, is it in this list or another list?. iirc
i've read it before. an App may have multiple Packages.
>
> --
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>
> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
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