Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword request interface (SoC candidate?)

[Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@bernd-steinhauser.de>]

Santiago M. Mola schrieb:
> I splitted this from the SoC thread so the possible discussion doesn't
> add noise to the original thread.
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:32 PM, joshua jackson <tsunam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>   
>>  Google is once again doing the summer of code for students. I'm helping
>>  organize it this year and am putting out a call for some elements to help.
>>
>>  1) We need idea's for things to do. Diego has already submitted some via
>>  his blog which have been taken into consideration.
>>     
>
> A lot of users don't feel comfortable using Bugzilla and often are
> lost with our procedures for keyword (both ~ and stable) requests. I
> think we could use an easy web interface for requesting specific
> keywords for packages in a point-and-click fashion.
>
> So the user would just pick a package from the list, and check some
> boxes with the arch(es) she want to see in ~arch or stable. Then ATs
> could go for the ones that met the requirements, and even prioritize
> stabilisations depending on the number of users who have requested it.
>
> I've been talking about it with some users and everyone agrees that
> they would like to have such an interface...
>
> What do you think about? Would it be easy to integrate it with
> packages.g.o or should it belong somewhere else? Do you think this is
> a suitable project for SoC?
>
> Regards,
> Santiago
>
>   
Maybe you are looking for something similar to the Wine app database?
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3755

Of course not the same, but similar.
I do think, that something like this could integrate in a very nice way
into packages.gentoo.org. The nice thing about that would also be, that
you have a nice overview over the packages(versions), that have a keyword.

Bernd
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