On IRC I saw Pascal Bleser and master Bryen talk about webpin2... Pretty cool! I wonder if there is any update on it? I think it's worth a nice article on omgsuse.com! If you think so, I attached a start for the webpin2 part which needs the latest status from Pascal and otherwise is just based on Pascal's awesome blogs about it and some searching & contemplating of mine :D Who's up for kicking Pascal to add his latest insights and gving this to Tyler to put on omgSUSE.com? And then continueing on this path, finding another cool openSUSE thing? Love, Jos Find your application or library in a whiff The openSUSE community offers a huge selection updated or special versions of applications, libraries and tools in a variety of locations. This poses unique problems for openSUSE: <em>finding</em> the packages can be difficult. Luckily, there is a solution: <a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/">webpin</a>. And a newer, faster version is being developed! openSUSE has been growing a lot recently. The <a href="http://build.opensuse.org/">openSUSE Build Service</a> allow anyone with a web browser to use the beefy openSUSE infrastructure to build packages for a variety of distributions. As you can see in the statistics on <a href="http://build.opensuse.org/monitor">build.opensuse.org</a>, the number of repositories and packages is staggering with over 120.000 packages in 30.000 repositories. Webpin used to rely on MySQL for its database. But with well over 27.000 users and the build service basically busy 24/7, churning out new packages at an epic rate, MySQL could not keep up. As was mentioned in <a href="http://omgsuse.com/content/sharing-opensuse-world-mirrorbrain">an earlier article on OMGSUSE.com</a>, the openSUSE mirrors update incredibly fast. Where for other linux distributions, release day is a big day, for the openSUSE server infrastructure it is merely a 3-5 requests-per-second blip on the radar - among the 300-500 requests that come in due to the openSUSE Build Service. New packages are pushed out <a href="http://omgsuse.com/content/sharing-opensuse-world-mirrorbrain"><em>more than once per minute</em></a>, you need something special to keep track of what is going on. openSUSE developer Pascal Bleser <a href="http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensuse-package-index-and-search.html">found that something in Apache solr</a>. He has been busily writing a REST interface for the <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=webpin">command line and graphical version of webpin</a> and working on an update to the web interface on <a href="http://packages.opensuse-community.org/">packages.opensuse-community.org</a>. We had a short chat with him about the latest status of Webpin2. Hi Pascal! It has been a while since <a href="http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensuse-package-index-and-search.html">you blogged about webpin2</a>. Any progress since then? So what does this mean, will webpin2 make it in the upcoming version of openSUSE? Where can people get it to test, if anywhere? Will it eat babies? So how can people help get webpin2 moving? blabla git merge request http://gitorious.net/opensuse/webpin2 blabla