[maemo-developers] adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

[From: Felipe Crochik]

This sounds like an even more interesting idea! It would be make for a very
not-exclusive-to-maemo project. Isn't any of the distributions working on
something like this? Why not?

For maemo the issue then becomes that it is not about just finding
developers to write an application but that we also have to figure out the
server side (who pays, who has access, ....). We would need, at least, to
have Nokia's blessing and I can't imagine that the people that maintain the
maemo.org site today will just offer to volunteer their time to this idea or
that we will get them to just grant us access to the server. 

Of course we could go the other route w/o using the current infrastructure
but then we have to find a new benefactor.

Felipe



-----Original Message-----
From: Ville M. Vainio [mailto:vivainio at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:59 PM
To: Felipe Crochik
Cc: a.grandi at gmail.com; maemo-developers at maemo.org
Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

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