[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 12:10:11, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
> 
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:36, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit :
> >> Maybe a rating/voting/popularity system should be available, however in the
> >> past people had complained about privacy issues, which I think may have
> >> resulted in little effort being put into completion of drakstats.
> >>
> >> So, maybe a web site should also be developed, which allows users to also
> >> access package rating information, and which provides some kind of
> >> installation feature.
> >
> > Yes this web site could :
> > - allow package rating
> > - show download stats (if possible)
> > - show recent versions updates (with the highest rating packages more visible than an obscure lib :))
> > - allow backport / new package requests (I know, bugzilla used to be the place where you did that previously, but can't we find a way to link both). This way packagers would have more visibility on the user's needs.
> 
> You describe quite what Kiosk was designed for (and what most App
> Store are nowadays anyway).
> 
> > OK, buchan, how do we start ? Shall we put improvements proposals (UI, website, ...) on the wiki, on
> > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate ?
> 
> No, these are two different things. Above wiki page is for stating a
> perceived problem, and detailing what people view should be (or not
> be) done.
> 
> Stating the need for, and specifying/scratching a web-based (or
> semi-web-based) UI for a socially augmented software library is
> another thing.
> 

Well, it's different, but to me part of the debate on the release cycle. As Buchan stated, better perception of backports by users could bring the benefits that some people see in a rolling release. Plus, I'm not only talking about web-based UI, but also rpmdrake improvements regarding backports.
However, if you think we shouldn't put an entry saying "no rolling release, but improve current backports scheme, see proposal below", I won't do it.

Regards

Samuel