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But I am not sure how to manage the authorization (or +</I>><i> the drop) in both cases: +</I>><i> * through web UI, that's easy: the user that drops has to be the very +</I>><i> maintainer or an admin; +</I> +Yes. And for taking maintainership, the package should not be currently +maintained by someone (other than 'nobody'). + +><i> * through the CLI, would it auth against the maintdb app or through +</I>><i> the buildsystem that, in turn, would notify the maintdb? +</I> +It would auth through the buildsystem, the buildsystem checks that the +user is either admin, maintainer of the package, or that the package is +unmaintained (using maintdb public method), then forward the request to +maintdb using the private method. + +Or the buildsystem can do the auth, and forward the request to maintdb +private method without doing any check, but including in the request +the login name of the user requesting the change so that maintdb can +check the permission. This one is probably better if we want to allow +changes using both website and CLI as it avoids doing the same checks +in two different places. + +><i> +</I>><i> (but that may be just over specification to this point) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Aside, I've written down this +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:maintdb#specs_actions">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:maintdb#specs_actions</A> after +</I>><i> having re-read this whole thread; it is likely incomplete but that's a +</I>><i> possible outcome of the discussion: setting down what minimal +</I>><i> behaviour is expected from the maintdb for it to be used. +</I> +It looks good. + +But I would change this : + +* POST <A HREF="https://maintdb/packages">https://maintdb/packages</A> + user - string - optional - login of the user pushing the package + + The user string should not be optional but mandatory. + + +* GET <A HREF="https://maintdb/packages">https://maintdb/packages</A> + Returns a list such as: + packagename / maintainers login / last commit date / url to bugs report / url to package repo + + I don't think we should return url to bugs report and url to package + repo here. For the "last commit date", we don't have this info. The + info we can have is "last sucessful submit date" (the last time the + private method was called on that package). + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000438.html">[Mageia-webteam] Proposal for maintainers database API +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000441.html">[Mageia-webteam] Proposal for maintainers database API +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#440">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#440">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#440">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#440">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-webteam">More information about the Mageia-webteam +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |