Random Thoughts / Questions (inspired by Roadmap discussion)

[ttcoder at netcourrier.com]

Hi John,
> Cedric, your HoG screenshot looks great!  Please keep us informed - I 
> hope your TuneTracker transition goes smoothly!

I might get in touch off-list to take you up on your "beta testing" offer (from a while back!),
my current tester has network-card issues and it might be good to broaden the test base,
try out different hardware with different Nic adapters.

> Depot Package Discoverability:
> Several people have mentioned that it is difficult to discover which 
> Sculpt depot packages are available, and from where.
> 
> I am going to try to put a temporary solution in place for this, until 
> someone develops something better.  No promises on timing, but I want to 
> bring the badly neglected "Genode Corner" [1] up to date, then add a 
> front-end for listing / searching Depot packages.
> 
> This will probably take the form of a daily process to pull in the depot 
> indexes, add a search page, and maybe an RSS feed system.  If anyone has 
> any implementation advice or feature requests, please let me know.
> 
> [1] https://www.alternateapproach.com/computing/genode/genode_corner/

Well if it was my project (or if I was part of the implementing team ^^) I'd probably
try to write the back-end script in V, as I suspect it would really fly for that kind
of job : downloading/parsing an XML file and generating server-side data. The trouble is,
I'm not sure how it would interact with the front-end, since it's a compiled langage (and I have
extremly limited front-end experience).

Cedric