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

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mardi 15 mai 2012 09:12:15, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> 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.

Ok, I added cache, which was long due and really improves performances, so I'm 
rather confident about it now. It's not propagated yet to mageia.madb.org but 
it will in the coming days. I'll update the applications list.

Samuel