TKL needs a simple one-page appliance list

[alonswartz]

Reported on lp#1180187 by JP Vossen on 2013-05-15

Description

TKL is awesome, and the web site appliance search is OK, but you really need a plainer all-in-one appliance list. I create one by screen-scaping the site (ugly) and post-processing in Perl to come up with these columns, and it's immensely useful:

Appliance | Short Description | URL | Long Description | Tags | App #

I find it much easier to convince someone how awesome TKL is using that simple matrix (in a spreadsheet) than via the relatively cluttered tiny sub-sets of the list you can see on the web. A trivial single-page drop-dead simple HTML table (which can then also be copy&pasted into a spreadsheet) would do the trick.

This is useful for:

• Import into a spreadsheet to show to the suits in something non-scary (suits love spreadsheets :)
• Online perusal without having to click and load pages
• Offline perusal
• grepping
• groking the overall scale and scope of the project all at once

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[lirazsiri]

The easiest way to generate a list of available apps is to list files by version via ftp/rsync on one of the turnkey mirrors. But that doesn't provide short/long descriptions.

Since we have access to the database we wouldn't need to resort to screen scraping if we wanted to publish a list generated by a script, but I'm not sure how we would integrate a streamlined version of this on the TurnKey website. Where would it go?