a better webinterface to our packages (Was: Re: New Fedora Extras Steering Committee chair)

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Jan 15 19:48:37 UTC 2006


Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2006, 14:37 -0500 schrieb seth vidal:
> > > Then again, I wonder how much of this is obviated by the presence of
> > > good searching interfaces in the tools we have in the distro, now?
> > 
> > I round about once a week use the debian web interface to search for
> > something. Now and then I use the one from gentoo, too. I suspect that
> > users of Debian, Gentoo or Suse now and then want to search for Fedora
> > Packages, too. We should make it possible.
> 
> We should define, now, what we want searchable and accessible from the
> interface. 
> 
> I'd rather not have a bunch of useless feature creep on the search
> interface. The simpler the search interface and display is, the better.

Agreed. 

> An 'Advanced' Search interface is better handled by telling the user to
> use the search tools in the distro and not the web interface.
>
> my perfect search interface is:
> 
> search:________________________ [submit]
> 
> and _maybe_ just _maybe_ having a way of telling it what release to
> search (3, 4, 5, etc, etc)
> 
> 
> Andreas, Konstantin, what do y'all think? Does sound in line with what
> you were considering?

On the other hand: The debian solution looks quite nice afaics:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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