Application for GSoC Project - Package WebUI

Pavel Khardikov sonic at inetwork.ru
Sat Mar 29 11:44:35 UTC 2008


Izhar Firdaus пишет:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Pavel Khardikov <sonic at inetwork.ru> wrote:
>   
>>  Hello, Izhar!
>>
>>  Excuse me for not writting in this list for long time.
>>
>>  I still have a great interest in Fedora and GSoC projects in particular.
>>
>>  At one of my first letters Thorsten Leemhuis replied:
>>
>>  "No idea - as I said, I just added the idea to the wiki. I have no ideas
>>  nor skills how to actually realize the WebUI, thus I don't think I can
>>  mentor this idea further and * * I don't have the time or interest for it.
>>  Sorry. "
>>
>>  and
>>
>>
>>  "I'd suggest you contact J5, the developer of MyFedora. Maybe he can help
>>  to answer the question if a separate WebUI makes sense (which I doubt). "
>>
>>  As I understood there is no sence to create another project that
>>  performs the same tasks and functions as MyFedora.
>>     
>
> Same goes for me, but looking Mockups, It looks a lot like PackageDB,
> but with an improved UI .. so, in my mind, rather than making MyFedora
> take PackageDB's ( http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb |
> https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ ) work, why dont extend PackageDB?
> .. PackageDB code is already out there .. revamp the UI, add more
> features .. I used the name "PackageWebUI" was because thats the title
> in the Fedora GSOC Idea page .. but I would prefer an approach of
> improving pkgdb rather than writing a new one..
>
> my.fedoraproject.org / MyFedora - the name sounds more like a Fedora
> AIO to me, and thats also what i understand from
>
> "my.fedoraproject.org is a project to integrate all of the Fedora
> infrastructure in one place. The goal is to create a modular web page
> in which each module would pull views from the various Fedora
> resources and display them to the user.",
>
> and one of those modules, could be an integration to
> PkgDB/PackageWebUI .. Unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one
> thing and do it well." .. PkgDB focuses on packages, MyFedora focuses
> on integrating the rest of Fedora infrastructure. Of course, provide a
> way for all of them to communicate with each other
> (JSON,XMLRPC,whatever).
>
> 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 ) ..
>
>
>   
I agree with you.
IMHO, need to use as a basis packagedb (revamp the UI, add more 
features, etc).
Make it pretty and convenient for users.

-- 
Best regards. Pavel Khardikov




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