2008/7/29 Romain d'Alverny|Mandriva <
rdalverny@...>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we are almost done with a first public release of the HCL website.
>
> What is it for? We expect it to serve as a report/lookup database for people
> to spot hardware that runs (Mandriva for now) Linux, and get it. So its main
> purpose is not being a full featured thing for geeks, although that still
> may be considered as an option.
>
> Although it's not ironed out yet, neither complete, and that we are going to
> keep on improving bits in the next weeks, new, fresh eyes are welcome
> already at this point.
>
> So if you have time, please have a look on it through
>
http://hcl.mandriva.com/session/beta (going directly on
>
http://hcl.mandriva.com won't let your enter the app otherwise).
>
> * for help, doc, please use this wiki page :
>
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Hardware_Compatibility_List - it is still very
> short, does not explain so much, I guess we will do it along comments;
> * for feature suggestion, please use this very wiki page for now;
> * for bug reports, please use the Bugzilla (
http://qa.mandriva.com),
> "Mandriva web site" product, "hcl" component.
>
> You will not see that many interesting reports at first. One goal of this
> review precisely is: you check if you have hosts registered already, and
> then you do comment/rank them.
>
> The key questions afterwise are: is it useful? is it simple to
> understand/use? what can be scratched out already? what is missing?
the query algorithm could be improved.
When looking for "Dell Poweredge", I will have many pages with Dell,
but the ones with Poweredge in the name will be shown in furthers
pages, and not on the first ones. There's no ranking support in the
query ? just a simple FullText search ?
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