Following up with the discussions that took place in the openSUSE
conference, I would like to kick off a discussion that has as an
objective to come up with a step-by-step plan on how to
- Make it ridiculously easy for the users to find & install the
ridiculously good software
This has various possible technical solutions. But the output has to be:
- a "place" where the user can click and see the available cool software
(ie: Chromium" not ie: libhenne-devel) with screenshots, ratings, comments
- The user should not care about repositories and their combination
requisites, or strange signature dialogs
- Other pieces in the distro need to be integrated, or at least it would
be nice to, for example we ship KPackageKit which is a lovely app if you
show a bunch of apps separated by groups, but gets completely unusable
if you show 2135 packages with strange names in one category in a simple
list-view. Other pieces don't, like zypper, YaST2 which are mean to be
used as package managers.
- Whatever new opportunities we are able to get done in the process. For
example, Frank's project bretzel has components that fit int he
backoffice, aiming for a one click publishing of software from the
developer's side (using adrian's _service's) which fits ridiculously
great in our build service story.
Cheers
--
Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - Novell® Making IT Work As One™
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org