My opinion is that building a tool like this ourselves is definitely the last resort - we have limited resources for the FR - let's not spend them re-inventing the wheel.<br><br>I'm not so sure about seperating out comments and information based on the distribution / app version / etc... would it be possible to put everything in one app-centric place, but tag the comments etc. with version/distro/etc? <br>
<br>One use case that I think is very valuable it be able to see what everyone else is saying about an app - for instance does MyMailApp work well with IMAP - that's not generally going to be tied to a specific distro, and not necessarily to a specific version. If I have to go through a bunch of different pages to see all the comments people have added about MyMailApp, it'd be quite annoying.<br>
<br>Of course, another question is does MyMailApp 0.93 work on SHR-Unstable built on Aug 15th - for that you'd like to be able to filter comments by distro and app-version...<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seba.dos1@gmail.com">seba.dos1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 8/25/09, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <<a href="mailto:david@tuxbrain.com">david@tuxbrain.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> Well, app-oriented showroom will be easier to maintain (well, i'm not<br>
>> sure about that), but less useful for users and applications using<br>
>> data from that showroom (about that i'm sure :P).<br>
> Ok so this argument has conviced me about a separate showroom by<br>
> distro, one of the goals is that the info can be reused, so if in this<br>
> way can be easier lets take this approach<br>
>><br>
>> Also, I would love to see self-built packages abbandoned at all and<br>
>> not used in such showroom, as they only produce mess and problems.<br>
> Distro mantainers have to work towards including this apps on their<br>
> distros to not let scape any of those cool apps (duke3d, doom, are an<br>
> example of cool apps lost in the distro evolutions)<br>
<br>
</div>Can't agree more. Application developers just have to provide distro<br>
friendly sources (preferrably git or svn repo, but tarball hosted on<br>
trusted server is also ok), packaging and integrating into distro has<br>
to be done by distro developers. This way packages won't be out of<br>
date and data in showroom will be really easier to maintain.<br>
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