[Swift-devel] bug 82: request for centralised installed applications catalog

[Ben Clifford]

Tibi put the following bug in:

> I'm thinking a tc.data database on the web, where everyone who has a 
> swift workflow can publish the applications that they have installed on 
> the Grid, and let others benefit from using them

> Ex:http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/SwiftGridResources

> This will be an extra incentive for people to use swift: they can use 
> already existing (and verified) applications from the grid.

> If we had a web interface for this, we could add it to the Swift 
> webpage, and let visitors see that the Swift has a active and diverse 
> set of users.

 i) who will own the list? that person would need to be responsible for 
ongoing verification (and documenting what they mean by verification) of 
that list, including regularly removing entries that have ceased to 
verify.

 ii) anything in SVN already has a URL to link to - anything in SVN is 
already 'on the web'. A better place for this might be as a tc.data.big 
file in the SVN, given that everyone really is using HEAD not releases at 
the moment.

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