On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Grant [Condimental] Hutchinson wrote:
> How about hooking in to the downloadable content found on the UNNA site
> as a starting point for the tracker? The missing piece in this case would
> be descriptive text for each piece of software. Filling in this
> information would be a fairly mammoth task which might involve parsing
> the read me files included in many of the archives. Daunting? Yes.
> Impossible? Not really.
>
> Any thoughts on this Victor? I think you had been tossing around the idea
> of a more descriptive, text-based front end for UNNA at one time. Or was
> that another conversation?
I am (slowly) working on a full information database system for UNNA.
Someone before suggested that I should make this DB versiontracker-like,
but this wouldn't work for a few reasons:
1) UNNA submissions all go through me, and are only updated whenever I
feel like it or have a good chunk of stuff to upload. The submissions are
not necessarially new versions or whatever. Versiontracker is much more
fluid and decentralized thatn waht UNNA is now, and I'm not sure I'm ready
to make such a change.
2) UNNA is an archive, not a news site.
3) The database schema which Paul and I have now hammered out is pretty
solid, once I write a bit of software glue. I don't want to mess with a
good thing.
The current status of the UNNA database is:
-We have a solid idea of what the DB is going to look like internally
-The tables have been built in the database
I need to find some time to sit down and write some basic PHP interfaces.
Anyone with a solid experience in PHP, mySQL, and/or NetBSD is welcome to
volunteer their time....
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