[maemo-developers] adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Felipe Crochik <felipe at crochik.com> wrote:

> I have to say that I like how the 3 of them work. If we are going to take on
> making a better tool we should aim high. It needs to be more than an
> "application manager" it needs to be a tool for the user to find and decide
> among all the applications available what he needs and, just by accident,
> install them. We need to have all the information about the application
> available (screenshots, score, repository, user reviews, # of downloads,
> ....); a very good search; and above all we need to have some service
> tracking what the user has installed not just to notify him about updates
> but also to remind him to vote/comment on applications that he has
> installed; A Donate button would also be great once we are there!

There has been some activity in the cross-distro app manager front recently:

http://ostatic.com/blog/one-package-manager-for-them-all

The fact that rpm/deb repositories are quite badly suited for modern
desktop/mobile linux use is undeniable. What we should have is a fast
web-service that sits on top of the "real" repository and provides
only the information that is needed at the time.

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Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia