From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVByr-0003Zs-Dm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:37:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1388CE0122; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rex96.flatbooster.net (rex96.flatbooster.net [83.133.189.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E343AE0122 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [78.42.31.136] (unknown [78.42.31.136]) by rex96.flatbooster.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960D51270D4C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47C86CFD.8020707@bernd-steinhauser.de> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:17 +0100 From: Bernd Steinhauser User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword request interface (SoC candidate?) References: <3c32af40802280933n1290c88bn35b2b989de29ce1b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c32af40802280933n1290c88bn35b2b989de29ce1b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f9c1c015-3604-4237-8f8e-ae2a13270825 X-Archives-Hash: 31dd3115988e1c5b254b476d90f1019b 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 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 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list