User:IOOI/GNUstepSoftwareIndex/Concept
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Abstract
GNUstepSoftwareIndex is a News Feed with Archive (i.e. App-Store) for GNUstep related Software.
Proposed Features
- "home page" with latest news (or if you prefer other words: announcements, publications, entries, versions)
- searchable archive of all publications (this represents the App-Store aspect of SWI)
- items can be tagged/labeled by categories as "Developer Tool", "Application", "Framework" etc.
- links to older (and newer) versions of the same application are available
- each News entry contains a lot of information e.g.
- App-Name
- version number
- author
- licence
- short description
- long description (html)
- links to source code, home page, binaries etc.
- tries to check if link works (by sending a http HEAD request)
- screenshots can be uploaded
- comments can be added by users
- ...
- not yet but should be added:
- dependencies
- build instructions (for automatic install)
- (hidden) e-mail address of author to allow bidirectional communication (e.g. if link is no longer working)
- a RSS feed of the latest news is available
- the feed can be fetched as a Property List so that it can be analysed by an Installer tool to find new versions of installed software and to find dependencies
- user registration
- collaborative approach: anyone can post change-requests to existing or new entries; moderators can approve/reject them (to protect against spamming)
- subscription and e-mail notification to individual updates
- statistics