Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (33 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/2 Duncan Mac-Vicar P. <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>:
> Following up with the discussions that took place in the openSUSE
> conference, I would like to kick off a discussion that has as an objective
> to come up with a step-by-step plan on how to
>
> - Make it ridiculously easy for the users to find & install the ridiculously
> good software
>
> This has various possible technical solutions. But the output has to be:
>
> - a "place" where the user can click and see the available cool software
> (ie: Chromium" not ie: libhenne-devel) with screenshots, ratings, comments
>
> - The user should not care about repositories and their combination
> requisites, or strange signature dialogs
>
> - Other pieces in the distro need to be integrated, or at least it would be
> nice to, for example we ship KPackageKit which is a lovely app if you show a
> bunch of apps separated by groups, but gets completely unusable if you show
> 2135 packages with strange names in one category in a simple list-view.
> Other pieces don't, like zypper, YaST2 which are mean to be used as package
> managers.
>
> - Whatever new opportunities we are able to get done in the process. For
> example, Frank's project bretzel has components that fit int he backoffice,
> aiming for a one click publishing of software from the developer's side
> (using adrian's _service's) which fits ridiculously great in our build
> service story.

Isn't that the idea behind http://software.opensuse-community.org/?
What's the status?
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