Re: [opensuse-artwork] artwork repo at opensuse.org: specifications [was:git repos]

Rajko - 16:09 29.11.13 wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:22:53 +0100 Richard Brown wrote:

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Oh mmmmm that idea could have legs :) I like it

Hopefully it will have both legs, left and right :)

I don't remember that anyone mentioned specific requirements for web service for artists.

This is what I can see as necessary (listed in no particular order):

* Act as another place (directory) on a local computer where artist can put files, edit content and save it. + It allows work even when web is not present (offline mode). + It does not require web based applications to edit images. - User have to save files and sync work before changes are visible.

ownCloud can do that.

* Version control. + Prevents loss of work, as the most recent version doesn't remove older. - Smaller changes will take more room for binary formats. This should not be a problem with today storage capacity.

ownCloud can somehow do that, although not real revisions like git and probably old revisions will be visible only on web. Haven't tested.

* No user intervention to upload, or download. Script, or binary, will take care to sync that local repo with opensuse artwork server, but user should be able to trigger synchronization at any moment.

ownCloud can do that.

* configuration should be as simple as possible, like: Tell binary your web credentials, and what part of the whole artwork repo you want to have and you are good to go.

ownCloud can do that. And has nice GUI wizard to do that.

* GUI as management tool. Artists are visual minds and giving them CLI will work with very few of them. - we don't have visual tool (?) + some people look for YaST modules to work on, or to create new ones. If we act fast to get their attention, then we can use their enthusiasm to fix one long standing problem for more contributions.

ownCloud has official GUI client, but being webdav, there are other GUI/CLI clients available.

* to prevent configuration problems later when you want to expand your interest to other art repos, directory structure on the web server is replicated in full, but only current interest is populated, or synchronized.

No. But you can always add another directory to be synchronized.

* included instructions, or binary, to create desktop links to populated repos which will allow to have your artwork at hand.

Not sure what you mean by that. Desktop links to directories you have on your disk? Depends on DE, but definitely independent of solution used.

* server layout (directory structure ?) ** User space for individual experiments with ability to link, or copy file to official ones. Per topic directories, like: ** system startup ** GNOME ** KDE ** Applications ** scripts and binaries

Independent of solution used.

* Any more? Please expand.

Looking at above, specifications are light version of something between OBS and SVN.

I like Richards idea of ownCloud, I think new artists will find it really easy to use and intuitive. -- Michal Hrusecky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org