[opensuse-buildservice] rough idea: webshop interface for OBS packages browsing and installation
Hallo.
http://software.opensuse.org/search is the only way to access packages without login.
There is no way to browse packages in repositories and read package and repository descriptions yet. Even installation of more packages using one-click install is not possible. Installing additional packages from just-added repository is very complicated as well.
I got a rough idea, how to get a web interface for it: Customize a web shop software: - "Category" would map to projects - "Item" would map to packages - "Add to basket" would add package to selection - "Checkout" would generate one-click-install file - "People who bought..." would map to recommend tags or use webshop statistics. - "Price" would map to download or package estimated size.
The only remaining categories to map somehow would be distribution and architecture.
Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008 schrieb Stanislav Brabec: [...]
I got a rough idea, how to get a web interface for it: Customize a web shop software:
- "Category" would map to projects
- "Item" would map to packages
- "Add to basket" would add package to selection
- "Checkout" would generate one-click-install file
- "People who bought..." would map to recommend tags or use webshop statistics.
- "Price" would map to download or package estimated size.
Neat idea!
You forgot "Customers who bought item xy also bought ..." ;) SCNR
Cheers, Jan
2008/6/17 Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz:
Hallo.
http://software.opensuse.org/search is the only way to access packages without login.
There is the software portal project[0]. You might want to look at some current screenshots[1].
It is based around the concept of applications rather than packages. Users should locate applications and be able to install regardless of how it happens to be packaged in their distribution.
Application and package details are imported automatically from repositories and also added/edited/commented on/rated by users. Users can find software by searching, browsing tags, browsing list.
There is not any checkout system yet though. It has been suggested, but there is a lot to do before that.
[0] http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal [1] http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/b/swp/
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Hi Stanislav,
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
http://software.opensuse.org/search is the only way to access packages without login.
There is no way to browse packages in repositories and read package and repository descriptions yet. Even installation of more packages using one-click install is not possible. Installing additional packages from just-added repository is very complicated as well.
I got a rough idea, how to get a web interface for it: Customize a web shop software:
- "Category" would map to projects
- "Item" would map to packages
- "Add to basket" would add package to selection
- "Checkout" would generate one-click-install file
- "People who bought..." would map to recommend tags or use webshop statistics.
- "Price" would map to download or package estimated size.
Neat idea!
We just need to avoid that people get the impression that it might imply real costs. :)
The only remaining categories to map somehow would be distribution and architecture.
Easy: "Size" and "Colour" ;-)
Peter
Peter Poeml wrote:
Neat idea!
Well. I only shared my thoughts. I am afraid, that I am not a correct person to implement something similar, but somebody may be inspired.
We just need to avoid that people get the impression that it might imply real costs. :)
Replace "Add to basket" by "Add to computer".
Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz writes:
We just need to avoid that people get the impression that it might imply real costs. :)
Replace "Add to basket" by "Add to computer".
wouldn't that look as if it got installed right away? I admittedly liked that add to basket, and then "check-out" means install. Some mouse-over could explain what the things really do.
However I think there is a line between using a known metaphor to teach something new on one side and trying to be funny while in reality it's just confusing on the other.
I'm still undecided wether it's weird or cool to create a shop for something free :)
Maybe it's more like a pot-luck party, a buffet, where you can pick and choose your favourite meals. With that, "Users who choose this one also liked that one" still makes sense, yet you still have the two steps select what you want and then actually ingest it (to the system).
S.
The WiiShop for buying and downloading software for the Wii console lists both the monetary cost (in Wii points) and the download size (in blocks), so I have a feeling with the popularity of the Wii console that buying something free (as is the case with the Nintendo provided channels that appear when you start up the Wii) is something most people can understand. It would just involve listing monetary cost and size for everything in general instead of changing the cost meaning based on if something doesn't cost any money.
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:07 +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz writes:
We just need to avoid that people get the impression that it might imply real costs. :)
Replace "Add to basket" by "Add to computer".
wouldn't that look as if it got installed right away? I admittedly liked that add to basket, and then "check-out" means install. Some mouse-over could explain what the things really do.
However I think there is a line between using a known metaphor to teach something new on one side and trying to be funny while in reality it's just confusing on the other.
I'm still undecided wether it's weird or cool to create a shop for something free :)
Maybe it's more like a pot-luck party, a buffet, where you can pick and choose your favourite meals. With that, "Users who choose this one also liked that one" still makes sense, yet you still have the two steps select what you want and then actually ingest it (to the system).
S.
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