[seul-edu] Seul Index Fields?

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

Hi,

Looking at the FreeDuc database, it appears that they have the following
fields:
(I've added a possible MySQL datatype)

1) Name		char(255)
2) Description 	char(255)
3) Author 		char(255)
4) Time		timestamp(11)
5) HomepageURL	char(255)

Then to categorize each entry we should add a few category fields (as many
as required, perhaps up to 5 or so..?)

6) Cat1	char(255)
7) Cat2	char(255)
etc., etc.

What more is required? (Remembering that someone has to enter this
information.... so lets keep it short.)

QUESTION #2:

The current index data is stored in the WIKI in a simple HTML file? Yes/No?


Les Richardson





At 03:51 PM 7/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Doug Loss wrote:
>> Or Zope, which is already running on SEUL.  I have no problem with any of
>> these.  It's just that the responsibility for keeping all this up-to-date
>> has fallen my way, and I don't have the time to set all this up and
>> transfer the info we have to it.  If someone will step forward to do so,
>> we'll happily move to a database-driven software listing.  (Incidentally,
>> this has been proposed more than once before, and the people who agreed to
>> do the work didn't follow through; so you can see where I may be a bit
>> jaundiced about the whole thing.)  If we can do this nicely and get the
>> information transferred cleanly, I'm all for it.
> 
>I agree that we should do the db approach if we can -- but I don't
>have the time to volunteer to make it work. The wiki approach that Doug
>is taking feels like it's decades out of date -- once people invented
>databases and scripts and could automatically rebuild a spiffy-looking
>page, they stopped updating things by hand -- precisely because of things
>like the multiple-ways-to-index-things problem.
>
>Two notes:
>
>a) If you choose Zope, it's easily possible that I will refuse to host it.
>The current wiki is buggy and bad for belegost's health -- it frequently
>has runaway processes that grow to take over the machine. So as I move
>services from belegost to moria, I probably will *not* move Zope/wiki.
>
>b) Take a look at the freeduc database. http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/
>and http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ofset/catalog/ 
>I would advocate just using ofset's freeduc database and not keeping
>our own list of educational software for Linux, except they only list
>the DFSG-free packages, whereas seul/edu wants to list a broader variety
>of packages.  (Please don't start a thread about the preceding sentence,
>unless you actually have new content since the last thread.)
>
>But certainly we can use their catalog code, and improve it as necessary.
>Does it look like something that could be adapted (or simply used)
>to do what we want?
>
>--Roger
>
>