On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 01:31:22 pm Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
2010/11/2 Duncan Mac-Vicar P. <dmacvicar@suse.de>:
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.
Isn't that the idea behind http://software.opensuse-community.org/? What's the status? Cool! Didn't know that something like this exists! That's exactly what I proposed in my last post.
Cheers Thomas -- Thomas Goettlicher SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org