One Hundred Daily Packages!

Wednesday, August 15. 2007

Posted by Chris Tyler in Administrivia at 00:02 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Today we've published our 100th article! The Fedora Daily Package is now serving about 135,000 hits a week to about 9,000 unique IPs. We had visitors from 43 different countries in our first week, and the list has grown since then.

A big thanks (and a piece of virtual cake and balloons) to everyone!

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What a coincident! 100th article of Fedora Daily Package and 100th issue of Fedora Weekly News[1]. Congratulation!

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Archive

#1 Thomas Chung on 2007-08-15 01:35 (Reply)

Yes, they've both reached 100 -- but the Fedora Weekly News is a older, larger, and more ambitious project. Congratulations Thomas!

#1.1 Chris Tyler on 2007-08-15 11:29 (Reply)

Congratulations! You forgot to mention all the Fedora Planet hits (i.e. people who read the post there and there only).

#2 red (Homepage) on 2007-08-15 02:24 (Reply)

I think that count includes almost everyone who reads FDP -- including those who read it through planet.fedoraproject.org or Google feeds or elsewhere -- because the images are served from the FDP server.

#2.1 Chris Tyler on 2007-08-15 05:45 (Reply)

Oh, images...right, I didn't think about them.

#2.1.1 red (Homepage) on 2007-08-15 13:15 (Reply)

Congratulation! Now that core and extras have been merged, there are nearly 8,000 [1] packages in the fedora repository. A guided tour of the available packages is very much needed, and Fedora Daily Package is doing a terrific job of that.

When installing Fedora, I've always diligently went go through the list of available packages, read the descriptions, and check or uncheck each package based on the description. This way I get just the packages I want. But now this is no longer practical; the number of packages is overwhelming, and it is very hard to judge a package from a short textual description.

I been thinking for while that what would be really cool is a DIGG-style site for Fedora packages. Members could vote packages up or down. It could support editorial reviews and user comments. Up and coming packages would be more readily discovered. Smolt data could be integrated into it, listing of open bugs, links to upstream, documentation, articles, etc.

Members could create package profiles (server, desktop, music workstastion, etc) containing collections of their favorite packages for particular kinds of systems.

During installation, Anaconda could lookup user's available profiles, and, if any are found, prompt the user to select one. The installation would proceed similar to using a kickstart file.

Alternatively, a user's profile could be fed into Revisor to create a custom fedora derived distribution.

[1] http://www.linux.com/articles/114290

#3 Allen Halsey on 2007-08-15 15:01 (Reply)

Replying to self: regarding a DIGG-style site for Fedora packages, I just noticed that something along these is being developed at online.gnome.org/applications [1] as described in Tour of GNOME Online Desktop [2]

[1] http://online.gnome.org/applications
[2] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/

It can keep track of your frequently used apps, making it easy to quickly intall them on a fresh Fedora installation. Seems very cool!

#3.1 Allen Halsey on 2007-11-15 19:09 (Reply)

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