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

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Tue May 15 09:12:15 CEST 2012


Le mardi 15 mai 2012 09:10:48, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> 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%2C
> > > > 20 %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.
> 

And I can make the list of applications really comprehensive rather easily.


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