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[James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:47:11 -0500, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Kiko proposed components at the Rally, and I think that one thing we
> could do to help this effort is provide a single place to find all of
> the latest versions of components.

Talking to Zygmunt it became clear to me that I didn't do a good enough
job of explaining the intent of this idea.

Kiko presented this idea as a response to the perception that Linaro
only releases every six months. Monthly component releases and Linaro
broadcasts will help with this to some extent.

However, I think that we could go further (nothing prevents us including
evaluation builds here too). We could present a landing page for finding
the projects that Linaro is producing, and getting hold of the latest
of any of them.

I think that to be really successful this should

1. Look good, to keep up with the rest of the free software world and
contribute to a feeling of quality around Linaro: apache directory
listing fails here
2. Give a sense of activity across all the projects, to contribute to
the feeling that Linaro produces lots of good stuff: a wiki page linking
to the Launchpad project pages for each component fails here.
3. Provide a way for people to find out about new things (the broadcasts
may provide this)

I have done a sketch of my thoughts at

  https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#vg1qdjy/mBiAW
  (the buttons "work")

which might help illusrate the idea.

It would be a fairly thin wrapper around launchpad which would host all
the information (at least for components, so that we can easily get
download counts etc.) It could actually be implemented mostly in
Launchpad, but there are some limitations that we would have to fix
first.

I am mainly focused on presentation here, as the problem as explained to
me was mainly a perception one (and where it isn't there are already
efforts underway to correct it), so presentation is very important to
fixing it.

Thanks,

James