On 06/23/2016 05:17 AM, Werner Flamme wrote:
Cornelius Schumacher [21.06.2016 22:17]:
On Tuesday 21 June 2016 09:34:31 Klaas Freitag wrote:
On 21.06.2016 09:23, Richard Brown wrote:
You may notice the absence of the software search (besides the link in the top right hand corner).
This is intentional. Attendees to the openSUSE conference can see my talk on Saturday at 11:00 [3] to understand why I think we should be de-emphasising the software search,
That is interesting. I personally think that the package searching and installation is one of openSUSE's strength, so it will be interesting to hear your thoughts about that, as I wouldn't have expected that that needs to be de-emphasised.
This actually might be a good opportunity to make use of some metrics. With the download page we have one of the rare entry points where we can actually measure what users are doing and what effect changes have. So it might be worthwhile to on one hand define what metrics are important for us and measure how we are doing with them.
Hm, what is "the download page"? I (of course I can speak only for myself here) often use software.opensuse.org to check if a certain package is available at all and if so, in which repo. Most of the time, my next activity is "zypper ar -f ...", So I rarely use the download possiblities of software.opensuse.org.
Maybe that is because I used webpin before - this great software found all the packages as well, and I had to decide to add the respective repo or use my browser and download the packages directly. I prefer creating the repo file, since in that case I usually get updates of the softwaren and its dependencies as well.
Since I'm rarely the only one with a brain twisted like that ;) you may not have the real picture for the importance of software.opensuse.org when you count the downloads only - you simply do not know what the searches do with the results.
Regards Werner
Yeah. It _was_ _great_. Webpin worked for short time and then was broken for a long time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org