Remaining to-do items for 3.7

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Thu Feb 19 14:27:16 UTC 2004


Julian Fitzell <julian at beta4.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > For example, why not simply use filters smarter? I fail to see what
> > would need us to use multiple maps.
> 
> Oh, it's not perfect by any means.  But it is simpler and it can be done 
> right now.

Eh, no. :) It is decidedly not simpler. The map contains not only
packages. It contains all the accounts too. So are we going to have them
duplicated in multiple maps? etcetc

> Even in the long term, I wonder whether the UI, etc mightn't be simpler 
> by having multiple SM instances that shared an authentication database 
> or something.  Not sure, but debian definitely keeps the three releases 
> very separate.

Maybe they do, but I stand very, very firm behind the fact that ONE map
is much simpler for us.
In fact - I claim that the perceived problem is in 95% due to poor UIs,
which of course is my fault. :)

The two biggest culprits are:

1. The registration UI for releases. Namely how to select the proper
categories. Not easy today.
2. The loader filtering possibilities. Currently it can't filter based
on categories.

The latter I intend to fix in next release of the loader and the former
I will also fix... in some future release. :)

> Julian

regards, Göran



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