I love the idea of using the forum for now. What's surprisingly actually is how quickly I could build this with rails and deploy it to heroku (like the new download counter). I'm probably going to build it sometime when I am bored. Just should be some minor packaging code with ruby into a zip and that's about it.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, mac9416 <mac9...@keryxproject.org> wrote: > Hey, RSK, > > We are guessing that many users' offline computers are physically a > long way from them, forcing them to travel that distance to create a > profile then come back to start downloading apps. Providing pre-made > profiles for download allows the user to get started downloading apps > for their offline machine immediately. > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Senthil Kumar_Rsk > <webrsk.id...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would be great if you can explain me , why creating profile by the user > > itself through Keryx will take more time? They can easily create profiles > of > > the offline machine of any distribution(of apt support) and they proceed > on > > rite. Any reason providing profile for download? > > Throw some lights on me :) :) > > Thanks, > > RSK > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, mac9416 <mac9...@keryxproject.org> > wrote: > >> > >> I really like the idea. It would get the community involved in making > >> Keryx more useful to more people. > >> > >> Only trouble is it looks like something that could take a lot of > >> coding time, which is something we don't have in excess. > >> > >> Perhaps we could have a temporary implementation of this using the > >> forum. We could open a new forum section with a sticky explaining how > >> to submit profiles. Reviews could simply be replies on a profile > >> thread, and moderator approval could be given by adding something to > >> the thread title. > >> > >> That would save us the time necessary to build a new website. > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Chris Oliver <exc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I had this idea and wanted to gauge interest in it. Right now it's > quite > >> > a > >> > pain for us to create new profiles. Not always do us as developers > >> > upgrade > >> > to the latest Ubuntu, and we certainly do not have copies of every > >> > version > >> > or other distros like Debian and Linux Mint. > >> > Taking this into consideration, I would like to propose a profile > >> > submission > >> > site for the Keryx community. The site would be simply as follows: > >> > - Give an example of how to create a new profile for common distros > >> > (this > >> > can be applied indirectly to other apt based distros) > >> > - Provide default profiles for other people to use > >> > - Allow users to submit their own profiles so that people do not have > to > >> > wait on us developers to post them > >> > - Votes can be cast upon submitted profiles along with comments > >> > regarding > >> > them. This allows the community to keep track of which profiles > possibly > >> > were incorrectly created and we could avoid them > >> > Keryx 1.1 could provide download access to "verified" profiles from > its > >> > interface. After a profile has gotten good reviews or has been > verified > >> > by a > >> > moderator, it would be put on a list that would show up in the Keryx > >> > home > >> > tab. This way we can make sure to keep a high level of quality for > >> > profiles > >> > while still letting the community help us out doing things. > >> > What do you think? I hope I explained the idea clearly enough but feel > >> > free > >> > to ask questions because I'm sure I missed something important that I > >> > wanted > >> > to convey. > >> > (Cross posted to the blog) > >> > -- > >> > Chris Oliver > >> > http://excid3.com > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> > Post to : keryx@lists.launchpad.net > >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> Post to : keryx@lists.launchpad.net > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- Chris Oliver http://excid3.com
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