Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (276 mails)

[Thomas Schmidt <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01.03.2012 15:02, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> On Mar 01, 12 12:05:35 +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> > As part of the current boosters sprint[1] which aims at integrating
> > the appstream[2] project into our distribution we would like to enhance
> > the web view on our packages at software.o.o/search.
> >
> > With the final target of an web-based appstore we began thinking of
> > how to display a package (app) to the user.
> > The challenge is to make available the matrix of different OS versions,
> > repositories and package versions in a clear way while making it easy for
> > the standard user to get the latest stable version for his OS without getting 
> > confused.
> >
> > We already have a mockup available:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/294274/software.o.o/package-view.png
> >
> > Feedback appreciated :-)
>
> The example search is 'kate'.
> I'd like to see at least that the highest available version number is
> mentioned somewhere in the results.
>
> It currently is
>    home:rwooninck:UNSTABLE_KDE4              kate       4.8.41
> Found with
>    osc se -V kate
>
> Hiding home projects completly is a very bad thing IMO.
> Currently users get the false impression that the search results are
> exhaustive. We could add a link 'Find more...' or
> tell what the difference is, like e.g.  'Not signed-off by SUSE' and add a
> list.

I agree we need the possibility to show the home projects, but make it
clear that you use them on your own risk.

Greetings

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Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org)
openSUSE Boosters Team
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