[ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> -> Still I think there's a need for a platform to promote ~working
> apps in an appealing way.

Yes that's true and I think that opkg.org is doing just that.

Only few small parts are missing.

1) Use it rather as nice showroom, not as opkg/deb repo

2) Voting UP/DOWN for popularity and showing most popular packages for
section/task, maybe iven UP/DOWN buttons for "I would like to test
it/use it or I need exactly something like this" - someone please
provide package for my distribution.

3) opkg/deb or manuall installation instructions only in first phase
when its unknown package from unknown developer :)

4) then community-editable list of distributions where it works/doesn't
work.

5) same list with sign if its included in standard repo of that distribution 
and if its not included, user should provide a link to distribution bug tracker
where is package request for that application and everyone could provide
bbfile/src.deb as attachment in that bug, its quite easy. Distro
maintainers than could check if that package is really that popular and
if someone from users/developer itself provided working bbfile then commit it to
their branch, remove link to bug tracker and set sign, thats already included.

Maybe just table like this

| distribution | works  | doesn't work | I would like to use it | Included     | Package request |
| shr-unstable | 10 + - |   2 + -      |   40  + -              |   Yes        | link-fixed      |
| shr-stable   | 2  + - |   0 + -      |   400 + -              |   No (_Yes_) | link            |
| debian       | 12 + - |   0 + -      |   4   + -              |   No (_Yes_) | _add_link_      |
| _add new distribution_                                                                         |

where + - would be voting links

> > Very last words:
> > Please do not put anything up, when there is no time / resources to maintain it. It would be a shame to waste so much efforts
> +1!

+1!
IMHO only few improvements of opkg.org are needed..

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