[Gimp-web] registry prototyping / design

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

Dear gimp-web folks,

I'm writing in regard to the plug-in registry, which I've maintained
(more or less) over the past years.  See http://registry.gimp.org/

The thing with the registry is, I didn't really work much on it, I
just kept it running. The code is from '99 and even looking at it
makes me slightly queasy ;-) I've also been busy with other things.
For quite a while, this worked fine but the information has seriously
degraded over time this couldn't go on. An overhaul undertaken last
year as part of Googles SoC never got done.

Recently, I have undertaken an experiment, the result of which can be seen at
  http://registry.gimp.org:81/
Its a tad slow, as the box its running on is quite busy, but should
give you an idea.  Also, its not public yet (and I hope it was OK to
nick your logo without asking, I didn't want to make this known before
something basic was available.) but feel free to pass the URL around.

Basically, its a CMS-driven registry.  The CMS in question is Drupal,
mainly because I had prior experience with it and because I like the
community orientation. There are several important things here:
 * it took less than a day to build it and yet its functionally
equivalent to the old site (which wasn't all that complicated)
 * the drupal setup would allow others to come in and help out with
maintaining it, i.e. looking for bit-rot, salvage outdated plug-ins,
and so on
 * should functional extensions be required, they are quite easy to do
 * if someone were to look at the design, its template-driven

One large chunk of work remains to be done and that is migrating the
old information. However, before doing that, I would like to ask for
some feedback from you guys.  Do you think this is still a worthwhile
service to provide? Is there something that should be done to it?
Would you like the design to be more in line with what is being done
at next.gimp.org?



-- 
Dipl.-Inform. Ingo Lütkebohle
Faculty of Technology
Bielefeld University
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~iluetkeb/

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