fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

Martin Bacovsky mbacovsk at redhat.com
Wed Aug 26 09:07:22 UTC 2009


On Monday 24 August 2009 14:36:09 drago01 wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi<a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 08/23/2009 10:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> >> Aren't we pitching Fedora Community interface as the end user facing
> >> thing, going forward? It seems some of these features will overlap or
> >> duplicate it.
> >>
> > It's possible.  The packagedb is going to be the backend for the Fedora
> > Community Front end so it had to get written this summer so that work on
> > the front-end can proceed.
> 
> For the front-end to be end user suitable it should:
> 
> * List applications rather than packages
> * Group them
> * Provide some kind of rating system to show "best rated" or "most downloaded"
> * Use the application icon if it has one
> * Make use of the packagekit browser plugin for installation
> 

This was actually the goal of Amber project https://fedorahosted.org/amber/wiki/Definition. The project stalled for almost a year. Then I wanted to join and take over  Amber development but we decided to better move the features into  pkgdb and work together.  

I also like the original Amber mockups (I believe they were created by Mike Langlie). You can see them here http://mbacovsk.fedorapeople.org/Amber/mockups/.
Any feedback is welcome.

Martin




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