Hello! Luis Felipe López Acevedo <felipe.lo...@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> On 2016-12-19 02:35, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: >> Hi Luis, >> >> Luis Felipe López Acevedo writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was thinking on improving the package-related pages, and made these >>> mockups: >>> >>> >>> Figure 1. Package list page. >>> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/guixsd-package-list-view-v0.png Awesome, I really like both mockups! >> Previous discussions centered around how difficult it is to maintain >> categories for packages. I think if we went this way we'd want to >> implement some form of deductive faceting, where we parse >> description/synopsis and try to generate keywords. But that sounds >> like >> it could quite easily become a can of worms… > > > If that is not possible, we can just ignore it for now :) We already have categories for GNU packages, and in theory it might be possible to get categories for non-GNU packages from the FSD (directory.fsf.org). But that’s just theory, so yes, probably best to keep it as future work. :-) In the meantime, we can try to find Someone willing to see how we could get data from the FSD. > Seeing the way the current logos from GNU packages are handled, I'm > not optimist about having logos for non-GNU packages and screenshots > for applications, any time soon. Too much manual work indeed. So I > think we can ignore images, to keep it simple. Agreed. In the future, we could also try to get logos and screenshot from some other database: FSD, Debian/Ubuntu, WikiData, etc. > So I see that some parts of the design could be used in the current > static site, advanced filtering and search may have to wait for a > dynamic site, logos and screenshots may be a can of worms. I’ve started a discussion with the Savannah folks (Cc’d you) to see whether/how we could have those pages generated on the server side. Thank you for the great work! Ludo’.
