Comps/groups/tags-concepts [Was: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-29]
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 3 16:26:55 UTC 2008
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> A couple of simple ideas:
>> tagging a-la flickr. If we key it on pkg name, we can keep the metadata
>> from changing a lot. We could do a pre-made sqlite db, for example, and
>> keep querying simple.
>>
>> But let's say an average of 5 tags per pkg name at 7000 pkgs ends up
>> being 35000 tags. Searching shouldn't be ridiculously hard and having a
>> table that maps the other way tag->pkg shouldn't be too bad, either.
>>
>> Toshio, any thoughts on if that's enough info?
>>
> That should be enough to create the UI I was thinking of.
>
> My main question would be, do we want this to be wholly separate from
> comps or to integrate somehow? If it's separate then we can implement
> this and the feature is ready to go. If it's integrated then Nicolas
> Mailhot's questions become important to answer.
>
I think we do POC on its own and then figure out if:
1. it should be merged into comps
or
2. comps should be merged to it
or
3. if all group selection should be redone to match up with a tag-based
pseudo-hierarchy.
-sv
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