[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

Fri Dec 17 23:41:46 CET 2010

Op vrijdag 17 december 2010 23:06:36 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+> Hi there,
+> 
+> it looks like we will need a database to know who maintains what,
+> basically.
+> 
+> It used to be http://maintainers.mandriva.com/ - its source code has
+> no explicit license, so we've got to build this again.
+> 
+> I drafted a very quick page for this here:
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:maintdb with basic entites and
+> relationships.
+> 
+> Now, it would good to know what packagers (and others) need for this.
+> For instance:
+>  * instead of having a single maintainer for a given package, have
+> several maintainers (with an admin maybe) over a given package (easy);
+>  * should there be groups of packages defined? (this adds/replicates
+> some logic that may already be somewhere else)
+>  * should there be explicity groups of maintainers? or implicit (as
+> made of people maintaining the same package)?
+>  * should there be (customizable) alerts/warnings for people, when a
+> new package is added, or removed, or that has no more maintainer?
+>  * ?
+> 
+> Thing is, this should be a really small, basic, simple component app.
+> So it plays easily with other components. I don't know how this could
+> be implemented/used or replaced by mageia-app-db however.
+> 
+> Thanks for your insights.
+> 
+> Cheers,
+> 
+> Romain
+
+
+imo, it could be used into mageia-app-db, allthough the purposes are a bit 
+different.
+
+however, if we plan on using ldap to store the maintainership (it would be 
+more like groups for each package and people being member of it...), then 
+perhaps it should be in catdap.
+
+however, we will have need of this soon; and it should also take into account 
+co-maintainers...
+