Feature changed by: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) Feature #310981, revision 7 Title: openSUSE Software Portal openSUSE.org: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Have you every heard or seen the openSUSE software portal? Why is it so well hidden on the website? This should be well visible and accessible through a much more prominent location, e.g. the iso software download page. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users, especially new linux/oss software users need a good starting point to search for software that might help them. The software portal does that, it's a shame it's not more accessible. Discussion: #1: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m) (2010-12-20 07:25:48) It is available from landing page http://opensuse.org and it is on http://software.opensuse.org . #2: Denny Beyer (lumnis) (2010-12-20 07:38:43) (reply to #1) Sorry, but no. I'm not talking about the software search, but about http://software.opensuse-community.org/web/ Please try to follow the use case above! + #3: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) (2011-01-26 23:49:16) (reply to #2) + A long while ago, Benjamin Weber and I implemented the Software Portal. + Even though we blogged and emailed about it, as well as made a + presentation about it at the first openSUSE conference, no one was + interested in participating -- at least in terms of coding, we have a + few good fellows who volunteered for testing. So we went on hacking, + and it's pretty much functional. But even then, no one was interested. + We eventually gave up because it just needed too much time for just two + people, and both of us had so many other things on the plate. At this + years' openSUSE conference, I stumbled (by chance) into a session about + implementing an "app store"-alike for openSUSE (and other distributions + as well, if possible). Even there, no one knew about it, and in the + mean time there were a few other implementations (even though none of + them is functional and having a smaller feature scope). So we discussed + a few things, and the decision was made to use OCS and the stuff Frank + Karlitschek had started to hack, which has been coined project "Bretzn" + since then. I don't think much happened on that since then. And then, a + very few days ago, there was a workshop in Nürnberg with folks from + other distributions to, again, but this time across distros (which is + extremely cool), come up with ideas and a plan to develop... an app + store alike for Linux distributions. I wasn't invited, and part of the + people there didn't know about the Software Portal, and some did, but.. + go figure. Not sure I'll try to contribute to the topic because I'm + rather disgusted at how all the hard work Benjamin and I have put into + this implementation (as well as the experience doing it) is just left + aside, and because of choices of technologies like it's 1999. We'll + see. Anyway, and as one can read from the above, I'm rather sour, to + say the least, on how it all went, especially because that's the kind + of things I very much want to prevent from happening in the project. + Hope that answers your question on why it isn't more prominent and why + almost no one knows about it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310981