Application for GSoC Project - Package WebUI

[Izhar Firdaus]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:50 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 22:44 +0800, Izhar Firdaus wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:01 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote
>  > >  > Or do J5 have different view about this?, both idea ( improve MyFedora
>  > >  > / improve PackageDB ) sounds okay to me, just that I feel that if
>  > >  > MyFedora implements those features, PackageDB and the effort made for
>  > >  > it previously would be rendered of no-use (or perhaps thats what one
>  > >  > of MyFedora's goal - to obsolete packagedb ) ..
>  > >
>  > >  There is a balance here.  For everything I have to pull from there is a
>  > >  cost in terms of calls I have to make to different backends per page
>  > >  along with the extra work to recreate the GUI for each module.  The
>  > >  different backends are taking a tools centric approach to manipulating
>  > >  data where as My Fedora takes a more data centric approach (here is the
>  > >  data how would I like to manipulate and display).  I agree the data side
>  >
>  > In other words, instead of calling interfaces provided by these
>  > backends (which is, obviously, more costly) , MyFedora will be
>  > directly access the databases and manipulate the data to be in a more
>  > user-centric and useful views (am I right?).
>
>  I generally do not want to talk to a DB directly though if performance
>  becomes an issue I might have to.  Generally it goes
>
>  MyFedora <-json-> mfquery proxy <-json/xmlrpc etc.-> Fedora Resource
>  <-db connection-> DB.
>
>  MyFedora but it would take longer and I would have to replicate the
>  logic for determining if a user is allowed to modify.  If it changed in
>  bodhi MyFedora would be out of sync and the user would be presented with
>  inconstant UI.
>
>
>  > >  of it should be part of PackageDB but unless someone really wants to
>  > >  work on a separate PackageDB UI I would just have that be a simple dump
>  > >  of the database in a slightly nicer form.
>  > >

In your opinion, which would be better? a project which adds value to
PackageDB or a project which focuses on the PackageDB related
integration with MyFedora ?

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