2009/4/1 Ricardo Cornet <rcornet@gmail.com>:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Benji Weber <benji@opensuse.org> wrote:
2009/4/1 Ricardo Cornet <rcornet@gmail.com>:
I tested that page and the results are.. well.. not nice.
Well it's a work in progress. You can also register and start tagging things up & rating things. When there's more user generated content the search can be adjusted to favour that.
In my opinion depending on users is not going to work. Most users are lazy...
Either packagers tag their packages, (which I don't think will happen) or we implemente via software something that read descriptions of packages and generates it own semantic dicctionary.
Well this is kind of what we have already. Indexer looks at package descriptions and .desktop files and tries to infer data where possible. Unfortunately there are no real rules for most of the metadata, so for every rule there are hundreds of exceptions. I think the only way for it to work is for people to teach the system. You can already select which source & binary packages make up an application, and define new applications. Then in future runs the indexer will respect your selections when discovering package updates.
How well the latter is going to work is subject to discussion. But it is easier to make software to work than make people to work. There is a lot of people and a lot of apps.
I'm not sure I agree here. Once it's easy enough people do contribute comments & ratings & tags on many websites nowadays. The key thing is making it easy enough to contribute, and we're not there yet. Not least because we can't even share login credentials with novell infrastracture. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org