Hello,
My name is Ionuț Arțăriși and I am a student in Bucharest, Romania. I have written code for pkgdb over the last year under the supervision of Toshio Kuratomi and I am now applying for Google Summer of Code 2009.
I have already discussed this idea at length with Toshio, but I would be very interested in your ideas and comments as well. I hope to be able to implement this project as I am aware of its long history as an idea.
Here's a short description (for the more detailed/technical part please visit [1]):
Other *nix distributions have a centralized place which enables the user to search and find relevant information about a certain application (ex: packages.debian.org, freshports.org, aur.archlinux.org etc.), but this is missing in fedora. The pkgdb is developer-centric as are other related applications which hold this information (bodhi, koji, bugzilla etc.).
The proposal is to create another view of the pkgdb aimed at the general fedora user. The project will be integrated with existing tools (yum, bodhi) with a desire to centralize their information and present it in a suitable form for the intended audience. It will provide package information such as: project website, pkg version, occupied space, categories, dependencies, user commenting/reviewing of packages, user tags with keywords (which will be exported to other tools in the future and used for searching).
Thank you!