{"id":34,"date":"2009-02-02T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-02-02T23:59:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:59:35","slug":"software-portal-preview-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/software-portal-preview-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Portal Preview Available."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">In the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had some time to work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.opensuse.org\/Software_Portal\">software portal<\/a> project for the first time for a while.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/softwareportal-test.opensuse-community.org\">test snapshot<\/a> that you can play with if you wish, and help find bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Please do <a href=\"http:\/\/softwareportal-test.opensuse-community.org\">have a play<\/a> and leave comments here or <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.novell.com\">file a bug report<\/a> under the <a href=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_bug_report.png\">Software Portal<\/a> component.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to <a href=\"http:\/\/softwareportal-test.opensuse-community.org\/web\/user\/register\">register<\/a> to add comments\/screenshots\/tags etc. Unfortunately since the account you use to login to other openSUSE.org services is controlled by Novell and they provide no openid\/saml facility you cannot use the same user account. If you want permissions to edit application details just send me an email (benji at opensuse dot org).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the recent work has been under the hood. Significant speed improvements to the repository indexer and a Webpin compatible webservice that will enable the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev-loki.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/webpin-command-line-client.html\">various<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com\/4686.html\">clients<\/a> to continue to work against software portal as they did with webpin until they can be ported to the new api.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some visible changes. The homepage now displays recent comments &amp; top rated applications, and includes the tag cloud.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_home.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_home_small.png\" alt=\"Software Portal Home Page\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Users can now choose a specific vendor for an application for their distribution, as well as installing from the preferred vendor.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_view_vendors.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_view_vendors_small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Editors can now customise which source packages map to which application.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_edit_source_packages.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_edit_source_packages_small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>and which binary packages should be installed by default when a user clicks install.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_edit_ymp.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bw.uwcs.co.uk\/b\/swp\/swp_edit_ymp_small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had some time to work on the software portal project for the first time for a while. 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