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[Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.ideas@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> >> >
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Chris Oliver
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