[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] The application Catalog page

[From: Sven Lankes]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:08:48AM +0100, Laurent Lieben wrote:

> Have a look on what the zaurus community did for their catalog :
> killefiz.de/zaurus

This is my page.

While it has been updated every now and then in the last two years there
hasn't been any work done on this in that timespan.

The Zaurus Software Index is also missing quite a lot of interesting
features.

I have received one of the 770 from the developer program and my plan is
the revive my sofware index as a more general "embedded linux software
index" so maemo applications can happily be listed next to zaurus and
other applications (it would of course be easy to switch to maemo-only
or zaurus-only or whatever else only view or even have a different entry
page).

I have tried getting hold of the sourcecode for one of the more
prominent software-index pages (kde-apps, freshmeat, ...) but that seems
to be impossible as they are not readily available and the maintainers
owners all have their reasons not to publish the sourcecode.

So I'm planning to restart from scratch (of course importing the current
content of the zsi). The plan is to implement the site in ruby on rails.
I have already created a (mostly empty) svn repository and a trac-installation 
at http://killefiz.de/elsi/trac/

So if you have any feature requests feel free to post them at the
trac-site or email me to discuss them.

Also email me if you would like to help make the new general software 
index a reality - I don't think I'll be able to finish this alone in a
reasonable timeframe.

Oh - and if you think having yet another listing sucks and I should
rather not work on this feel free to send an email too.

-- 
Sven Lankes