www.opkg.org - Relaunch!

Francesco de Virgilio fradeve11 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 11:15:09 CET 2008


Woow!
Probably the greatest Christmas gift for this year!

Tobias Kündig ha scritto:
> Dear Community,
>
> After hours of coding I can present you my little christmas gift for 
> Openmoko and the whole community: The relaunch of www.opkg.org.
> The whole site was recoded. There is a new system and a shiny new design.
>
> These are the changes I made:
>
>
> New Design
> -------------------------------
>
> The old design wasn't very pretty. The new one is more professional and 
> hopefully user friendlier than the old one.
>
> The best results you'll get on a resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. I'm 
> sure there are some displaying bugs in other browsers than firefox or in 
> other resolutions. If you find one, please drop me a line and I'll fix 
> it ASAP.
>
> There are also some small goodies. For example all new packages since 
> your last visit are highlighted in the overview.
>
> One note: Please remember that I don't speak English as first language. 
> So I'm sure there are a lot of grammatically mistakes in the text. 
> Please let me know that, so I can correct them.
>
>
> Improved member area
> -------------------------------
>
> If you are logged in, the member area are now appears on the homepage. 
> You'll find a list of all your packages with useful links like «Edit» or 
> «Restore older version». By the way, you now can delete your packages 
> yourself.
>
>
> The API remains the same
> -------------------------------
>
> The API wasn't changed at all. So if you began to write an application 
> using it, you don't have to change anything. It simply was ported to the 
> new system - but the results it gives you, are the same than the old one.
>
>
> What you should change
> -------------------------------
>
> The URLs for the RSS-Feeds have changed. So please update the URL in 
> your RSS-Reader. Furthermore I'm sure that not all updates since last 
> Friday are correctly imported into the database. So please check the 
> packages you updated since last Friday.
>
>
> What's next?
> -------------------------------
>
> There are some features I'd like to include in the future. First of all 
> there's a repository I'd like to create. And maybe I'll include a 
> feature where you can give the visitor information about the 
> compatibility of your package. So you can say, yes, it works on 
> OM2008.12 but not on FSO, for example.
> Maybe I'll have to change the category names too because there is some 
> conversation on the mailing list about it. We'll see...
> Of course I'd like to implement your ideas as well. So please write me 
> if you have a revolutionary idea.
>
>
> Please let me know <http://www.opkg.org/contact.html> what you think of 
> the new site.
>
> I wish you all a merry Christmas,
> Tobias
>
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