[Mageia-marketing] See package changes between Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 by using Mageia App Db

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mardi 15 mai 2012 09:03:29, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le lundi 14 mai 2012 12:55:48, Patricia Fraser a écrit :
> > Stormi,
> > 
> > > Just in case it can help you in your task of promoting Mageia 2, here
> > > is a link to get a comparison between Mageia 1 and Mageia 2.
> > > 
> > > * new packages are in green background
> > > * updated packages in white background
> > > 
> > > http://mageia.madb.org/package/comparison/source/1/application/0
> > > 
> > > This shows source packages. The "show only applications" and "regular
> > > packages" led me to some SQL errors I must investigate, so meanwhile
> > > I advise to not use them on this page.
> > > 
> > > The group filter should work fine, for example here is the same page
> > > for games only:
> > > 
> > > http://mageia.madb.org/package/comparison/application/0/group/78%2C20
> > > %2 C64%2C10%2C30%2C46%2C74%2C1/source/1
> > > 
> > > (It's still a demo instance for Mageia App Db, it's not running on
> > > Mageia servers yet)
> > 
> > I am thinking about adding a link to madb in the Blog post for release
> > - what do you think?
> 
> It would be good if madb was on mageia.org servers, but right now this is
> only a demo version so I'm not sure we should get users accustomed to the
> current URL.
> 
> I sure would like such a highlight on the project, but I'm not sure we're
> ready for it technically either (performance issues, especially on that
> page).
> 
> So better copy the result, make it a static page somewhere on wiki or
> other location.
> 
> Also, the list of "applications" is not comprehensive, some applications
> are wrongly seen as technical packages currently, so you need the "show
> all packages" filter, which doesn't work on mageia.madb.org currently. I
> fixed the issues that prevented the page from showing when there are
> many packages on a dev instance. It's still slow but at least it works.
> Here is a link: http://dev2.madb.org/package/comparison/application/0
> 
> Samuel

On second thought, I might be able to solve the performance issue with some 
caching, so it the fact that it's a demo instance and not the final one is 
not a blocker, then why not.

Samuel