Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #310986, revision 4 Title: Software Search to arrive at most desirable options openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important + Info Provider: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Requested by: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently the Software Search and or Webpin results in a plethora of choices, most of which are less than desirable. Ideally, search results should First offer the most stable and or suitable packages. For example. If a user comes along and searches for 'VLC' They are offered a host of unstable options. Everyone knows that 'VLC' should come from Packman. If we can't refer directly to Packman, it should be possible to link to a multi-media giuide. I'm going to guess this could be difficult. But it must be possible to flag searches by keywords to redirect to the most likely solution, but with an option to continue to search anyway. Test Case: Open here: http://software.opensuse.org/search and search: vlc Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Avoid new user use of unstable or unsuitable repos. We should be directing to the most suitable or most likely suitable solution. At the moment it's very random. Discussion: #1: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) (2010-12-16 09:29:00) I already thought of adding notifications based on keywords that point to the right download pages for example packman, nvidia etc. + #2: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) (2010-12-16 18:19:16) + We added some default notifications now for "nvidia", "broadcom", + "google earth". Which were the most failing searches according to the + logs. Could you provide more helping texts for specific search terms? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310986