Hello, Am Sonntag, 20. März 2016, 13:31:18 CET schrieb Richard Brown:
We discussed the shape of how we'd like to see the wiki We all agreed want to see a big tidy up. Many of the Portals have little benefit and serve little purpose. We want to see the namespaces removed/flattened to help the search
Please don't confuse the search with the wiki layout ;-) I'm not saying that the wiki doesn't need cleanup, but configuring the search is independent on that. For example, instead of searching only some namespaces by default and ignoring everything else, it should be configured to give those namespaces a higher weight, but still search all other namespaces (with reduced weight, so that results from them usually appear at the end of the search results). That's possible and was already discussed long time ago, but nobody implemented it. (One more thing that needs direct access to the server or at least the config files.)
Software search would continue as it is...but we considered some problems with that The current implementation of One-Click installs is often dangerous. Because they add all the repos setup in the OBS repo you often end up with crazy things like Factory:ARM repos being added on systems where they are not relevant Furthermore, making it very easy to install packages from 'non-official' repos dramatically reduces the motivation and impetus for developers to put their packages in the Distribution Having packages in the Distribution though is the best way to ensure your package works, is tested, and is integrated So we would like to see One Click only pulling from the official repos If Packages are not in the official repos, we would like the software search to put users in touch with devel project maintainers to encourage the packages be added to the distributions
I understand the goal, but this sounds like it would make things harder for users. Even if a user can encourage a package maintainer to submit a package to the distribution, it can (for Leap) take months until that package is officially available as part of the distribution. That completely breaks the idea of being user-friendly ;-) People who are searching for a package need it *now*, not after a long fight ;-) with the maintainer. I'd guess most of them don't really care if the package comes from the official repo or from home:donttrustme ;-) Counter-proposal: get download statistics (for both one click install and "normal" repo usage) and contact the maintainers of the most popular packages to get those packages added to the distribution. It might also be a good idea to make the download statistics of each package visible on build.o.o.
Provo datacenter has room and bandwidth, but limited admins. SUSE have an engineer moving from Nuremberg to Provo to help illivate that problem.
There's nothing wrong with moving an engeneer to Provo, but for most cases - SSH exists ;-)
Discussed the current wiki problems. Roland volunteered to help drive a solution
I'm *really* looking forward to get this done quickly - ideally in a timeframe like "yesterday" ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- martins@apollo:~> telnet titanic.st.bauing.tu-darmstadt.de 25 Trying 130.83.84.100... telnet: connect to address 130.83.84.100: Connection refused "titanic..." nimmt keine Mail an, vermutlich ist der Rechner untergegangen. ;-) [Martin Schmitz in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org