[Debtags-devel] New (experimental) Debtags package search page

[Torsten Marek]

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Enrico Zini schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm so proud of this that I need to announce it to Debian Devel
> Announce.
> 
> I implemented a new kind of package search, here:
> 
>   http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi
> 
> It's an experimental new way of searching Debian packages: you start
> with a normal text search, and then you work with categories.
> 
> Working with categories is as easy as expressing three very simple
> opinions: "I want this", "I don't want this", "I don't care about this".
> 
> You don't even need to know about the categories to use this, and in
> a few simple clicks, you should to the packages you need.
> 
>                                (description taken from the FAQ[1])
> 
> It is experimental and it is a prototype, so it is slow.
> But it is cool!
> 
> The idea came from a chat with OpenUsability's Jan Mühlig at LinuxTag,
> and has been further enhanced with discussions in the Debtags mailing
> list[2].
> 
> Both the search page and the editing and browsing pages connected to it
> definitely need some Ajaxing.  If you decide to do it, send a mail to
> debtags-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org; improvements of the CSS are also
> very welcome.
> 
Hi Enrico [and all others],

did I already say that the new package browser looks good and has definitely
great potential? Hooray to the combination of good programmers and usability
experts!
Too bad I don't know anything about AJAX, but I hope I can be helpful with other
stuff.

While I was browsing around, I noticed that it would be beneficial if
quasi-subfacets like devel::lang: and made-of::lang: would be displayed on their
own level. Of course, this can be done without introducing eg. devel::lang as a
separate tag with it's own description, but I cannot think of it right now. Do
you have any ideas for that? Otherwise, I'm carrying around the ideas of tag
properties (like: "abstract" for devel::lang, "exotic" for rare categories, so
that they can be hidden in the GUI etc), but I haven't made a braindump of this
idea yet.

Keep up the good work!

best greetings

Torsten
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