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Cool Idea and best way of using the forums :) Heroku , I heard more about that , let me feel it this time :) Thanks, RSK On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx >> >> > Post to : keryx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx >> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx >> >> Post to : keryx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Chris Oliver > http://excid3.com >
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