Hi Syds,
we should definitly not let software.o.o die. This is my first place to go when I miss some software. Most of my demands are satisfied by main-repo, packman, games.
Of course there may be outdated data. But still, at least something is found. Emptyness or the lack of visible software may look to a newcomer as like openSUSE was abandoned.
At least we should index base (for various main versions, just to show what is in Leap X and in Leap Y), packman, games. In general just what's there in YaST2 software community repositories.
But stuff like vscode, dotnet should be mentioned there as well.
The web interface just looks fine and works. We probably should replace the backend with something that is technologywise close to the other technologies used to power opensuse.
I can do Ruby, Python, Java and whatever is necessary to contribute. Maybe we should "elect" someone who is in charge?
Cheers, Bernd
Am 31.03.22 um 00:18 schrieb Atri Bhattacharya:
On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 20:43 +0000, Syds Bearda wrote:
This tread is going greatly out of topic.
The topic is: software-o-o is not working as intended, let's fix it.
The topic is also, as I understand it: should we fix it --- therefore investing in it --- or just let it die, and for the security issues and ease with one-click-shopping from random repos will break your system, we should let it die (at least in its current form).
It's not about a discussion which packages a user is allowed to use and what not.
Also not everyone using software-o-o is an openSUSE user already. Just yesterday I had a discussion with someone who was thinking about using openSUSE Leap 15.4 as their new workstation OS instead of Ubuntu because of the push for snapd, but he first wanted to know if all the packages that he needs are available, software-o-o would be the perfect website for that.
If *and only if* it showed just the official distro packages (both for Leap and TW).
We do not want to get the users' hope up too much by showing them software from all sorts of repos, then to catastrophically let them down when their system eventually breaks.
Cheers,