Application for GSoC Project - Package WebUI

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Pavel Khardikov wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Pavel Khardikov wrote:
>>> Izhar Firdaus wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Same goes for me, but looking Mockups, It looks a lot like PackageDB,
>>>> but with an improved UI .. so, in my mind, rather than making MyFedora
>>>> take PackageDB's ( http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb |
>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ ) work, why dont extend PackageDB?
>>>> .. PackageDB code is already out there .. revamp the UI, add more
>>>> features .. I used the name "PackageWebUI" was because thats the title
>>>> in the Fedora GSOC Idea page .. but I would prefer an approach of
>>>> improving pkgdb rather than writing a new one..
>>>>
>>>> my.fedoraproject.org / MyFedora - the name sounds more like a Fedora
>>>> AIO to me, and thats also what i understand from
>>>>
>>>> "my.fedoraproject.org is a project to integrate all of the Fedora
>>>> infrastructure in one place. The goal is to create a modular web page
>>>> in which each module would pull views from the various Fedora
>>>> resources and display them to the user.",
>>>>
>>>> and one of those modules, could be an integration to
>>>> PkgDB/PackageWebUI .. Unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one
>>>> thing and do it well." .. PkgDB focuses on packages, MyFedora focuses
>>>> on integrating the rest of Fedora infrastructure. Of course, provide a
>>>> way for all of them to communicate with each other
>>>> (JSON,XMLRPC,whatever).
>>>>
>>>> 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 ) ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> I agree with you.
>>> IMHO, need to use as a basis packagedb (revamp the UI, add more 
>>> features, etc).
>>> Make it pretty and convenient for users.
>>>
>>
>> I've clarified the Package WebUI idea a bit [1]_
>>
>> Basically, the data is going to need to reside in the PackageDB. 
>> MyFedora may choose to pull that information out as raw data or as an 
>> import of the PackageDB UI.  We'll have to evaluate that later.  the 
>> focus of this particular project would be to provide a task or 
>> application oriented interface to the information in rpms.  This will 
>> require a fair bit of additional db schema as the current schema is 
>> oriented towards packages and we'll want to pull information about 
>> programs, libraries, etc out of the packages.
>>
>> There are other possible projects revolving around the packagedb and 
>> myfedora.  For instance, the PackageDB UI is in desperate need of a 
>> clean up (the present UI is what I threw together to make the intial 
>> release.)  If someone wanted to take the time to mockup a new UI and 
>> implement the html templates/javascript functions to make it work, 
>> that would be a much needed project as well.
>>
>> .. _[1]: 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas#head-fc035207c713afb64340dc9c1fdfcda3ae963f53 
>>
>>
>> -Toshio
>>
> I thought to realize exactly these functions of  Package WebUI project 
> from the very begining as the idea for GSoC.
> But unfortunately there is no time till deadline for presenting 
> applications :-(
> I wish I had a chance to do UI for package WebUI pretty, convinient and 
> clear for everyone.
> 
Be careful what you wish for :-)
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-Toshio

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