That was fast: we have only just explained why our Mageia Application Database was offline and now papoteur tells us that new MADb is ready to be used.
Open the site and at first glance you might think you have somehow connected to the old site as the differences between it and the new one are hard to spot (the top one is the old site):
However, this is only the outward appearance, as the style sheets (CSS) were re-used with little modification.
The tool itself, previously written in PHP, has been completely rewritten from scratch, using Python, Flask, Jinja2 and DNF5, so the runtime code is entirely new. Papoteur showed two code snippets as an example of what really changed (again, the top one is old):
That is as different as a page from an English book compared to a page from its Indonesian translation!
About 3000 new lines of code were written for this new MADb, which is now live and ready to answer your queries about Mageia applications.
As you use the site, we ask you to think about what questions you feel an integrated help function (not yet available) should answer, and also what you feel we should include in a new wiki article about MADb. Please note your suggestions in the comments to this post, as you are all the Mageia community and this tool is for you.
Thanks to the MLO community for hosting new MADb.
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