Re: Bundles in Agora

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 15 Oct 2012, at 16:14, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 9 October 2012 23:48, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:10, address@hidden wrote:
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>>>>> Regarding your future stuff. "A bundle management system (so that
>>>>> users can rename, delete, and add files after creating a bundle)", I
>>>>> think wee need more basic functionality before this.
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>>>> Actually, if possible I'd prefer if you could NOT implement this 
>>>> functionality at all.
>>>> I'd rather have users upload complete releases of their bundles.
>>>> For managing incremental changes to single files I believe using a 
>>>> revision control system
>>>> would more appropriate.
>>>>
>>>> That's just me though ...
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>>> It's not just you, you are right. This functionality is not desirable
>>> at all. It's just making easier for all octave programmers that call
>>> themselves non-programmers to shoot themselves on the foot.
>>>
>>> Carnë
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>> Hi Wendy,
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>> I am sorry I did not answer your e-mail. I haven't been getting
>> messages from the mailing list (some mail problem at the uni). I saw
>> your answers thanks to your post in planet Octave. Thank you fro your
>> continuous update!
>>
>> Regarding your question:
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>>> The rating/feedback functionality is a good idea. Do you have any thoughts
>>> on how it should work? For instance, should the rating be a number (say, out
>>> of 5), and should anonymous users be allowed to rate things? The more ideas
>>> you have for this the better!
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>> The method I thought would be useful is the one of the "like", "do not
>> like", with comments (something like youtube). Anonymous users
>> shouldn't be able to vote. It would be nice to have a download counter
>> as well, this one counting all download from anonymous and registered
>> users. The idea is that one would be able to make a search and order
>> by downloads and rate. I would start with something as simple as
>> possible, we just need what we have in the forums.
>> Eventually it would be very useful to have the possibility to flag
>> bundles but for this we will need special users, like admins, etc...
>> and this is too much... like in stackoverflow... lets leave it for the
>> future.
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>> Again, the simple, the better.
>>
>> All this in view of considering one of the uses of Agora to
>> recruit/detect future collaborators.
>>
>>
>> Thanks and good luck!
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> Hi Wendy,
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> I just prepared new releases for some packages in Octave-Forge and I tried to 
> upload them
> to Agora in order to test the bundle-submission system.
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> Here are some comments you may (or may not) find useful to improve its 
> functionality.
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> 1) "Description"
>    Bundles formatted as Octave loadable packages do include a "DESCRIPTION" 
> file,
>    wouldn't it be possible to parse that directly as it is currently done to 
> create
>    the package page on Octave-Forge?
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> 2) Docs
>    When uploading a package on Octave-Forge we include a set of html files 
> with the package
>    documentation that are automatically generated using the 
> "generate_package_html" function.
>    Wouldn't it be possible to allow users to upload such files on Agora as 
> well and show them
>    instead of the bundle file listing?
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> 3) Browsing bundle contents
>    I don't think the ability to browse the contents of all the files in a 
> bundle makes much
>    sense, it would be better to just show the description, index, license and 
> possibly
>    the HTML docs.
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> 3) "Name" field.
>    It would be nice to add a warning under the field title specifying the 
> acceptable
>    format for the field to avoid trial-and-error
>
> 4) "Paste it" button.
>    Shouldn't this read "Upload" in this context?
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> 5) Formatted and unformatted bundles.
>    These suggestions are biased towards the case were bundles being uploaded 
> are in the format
>    required by the Octave package manager ("pkg.m"), you might want to add a 
> flag in the upload
>    page that allows to specify whether the bundle peing uploaded is formatted 
> according to this
>    format or not and behave differently in the two cases.
>
> These are just my two cents, others may think differently.
> Anyways, starts to look very nice, keep up the very good work!
> Thanks,
> Carlo
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I subscribe to 1), 3)"Name", 4) and 5).

Cheers