On 13203 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> - any member of the uploading keyrings can create a PPAMAIN using a >> defined interface[1]. >> [1] Most probably it will either be a signed mail or a signed .commands >> style file. > While I won't question the need to support signed mails or commands files, > I would like to argue for the support of a web interface as well.
Anyone is free to create one. > The sheer number of operations that are possible on such repositories will > make it difficult to remember the precise syntax of the various > operations. A web interface is much more discoverable. Furthermore > it's obvious that we will have web interfaces such as those used > to track transitions and it would be nice if we could unify them at > a single place (think: checking the tracker, then clicking a button to > trigger/request a bin-nmu of foo, another button to import the correct version > of bar, etc). > I'm not asking you to create that web interface but at least to keep in > mind the fact that someone might want to write it and as such to clearly > separate what needs to be handled separately (mainly authentication I > guess). Nah, the webinterface just should end up like the DAM webinterface: You do whatever you need, then click a button - and voila, there is everything ready to copy/paste into a MUA. Send with sig, done. Or it ends up giving you a commandline for $whatevertoolisTHEsuck on that day. -- bye, Joerg <miro> Alfie: warum heist du jetzt eigentlich Rhonda? <maxx> das ist heuer so mode... <Rhonda> 17:07 <Rhonda> Nein, ich erklärs nicht schon wieder nicht.... <Rhonda> 17:08 <Rhonda> 10mal nicht erklären muss genügen. <maxx> Rhonda ist die Frühjahrskollektion von Alfie :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87haif7vkv....@gkar.ganneff.de
