DraknGo

Note: DraknGo was now superceded by IRIS (IRIS Specification Area).

The objective of the project is to have an online catalogue of installable RPMs. The project has two constituents:

Make a user-friendly internationalized catalogue of free software, with screenshots
Provide the users (Club members only) with a link toward the right RPMs or media for installing the software, taking into account the Mandriva Linux version the user is running and the geographical location of the user (for choosing the closest source).

We also have to find a name for the module. DraknGo is only the project's code name and was chosen at a time when Mandriva Linux was "Mandrake Linux". It was chosen in reference to the Linspire Click'N Run project. Put suggestions here :

DrivMeIn
Mandriver
RPMandriva
RPMan
RPMiner
RPMClub
Iris like http://iris.lycoris.com ? (There are already lots of "Iris" stuff on the web)
Klik for Debian http://klik.atekon.de/
Dreamstall
AppTake
DownloadToGo
ZeroInstall
Mandriva Just click!
Visionstall or Visinstall (half vision half install)
Clikity - because it's fun to say. If it's fun to say, it must be easy to do too.

Well, why not switch to Esperanto names :

Paketilo ? (means "Tool-for-packages")
Kluba instalilo ? ("Install-tool of the club")

Or for the french touch :

NestoRpm or NestorRPM (Nestor is the guy who does everything to serve you!)

ToDos

Provide guidelines for making the software catalogue
See how to link the navigator to the graphical tool gurpmi
Add the Plugin Finder Service in the module

Software catalogue guidelines

Each software is described by a wiki page in the knowledge base. A new module will be created, that will use the knowledge base content for presenting only software.

Software description parts:

Title
Tagline
Description with logo
Detailed features + screenshots
Links toward documentation, help, forums
Web reviews

A number of such descriptions are already available at Web Home. They will be moved programatically into the knowledge base, with a different layout (full text wiki pages instead of XWiki objects).