[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

Sat Dec 18 09:33:33 CET 2010

Op vrijdag 17 december 2010 23:55:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 23:41, Maarten Vanraes
+> 
+> <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > imo, it could be used into mageia-app-db, allthough the purposes are a
+> > bit different.
+> 
+> So it should be a separate component.
+
+mageia-app-db does related stuff; but afaik, it only does read operations
+ 
+> > 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.
+> 
+> I'm not sure this should be put into the LDAP, but I may be wrong. The
+> data model is likely to change often enough (even if not a lot) and
+> queries are likely to be frequent enought, to justify a separate,
+> simple db/app for that. But here again, I may not have all the infos.
+
+well, i don't know; in effect; IMHO the model is no more than a groupname with 
+members in it and possibly an extra attribute that defines the primary member.
+
+if the groupname is equal to the package name; and if they are in a separate 
+base; then this could easily be used for limiting if that is desired later on. 
+AFAIK the contents changes and how it's used, but not the model itself.
+
+if we will use ldap as backend, then we should use catdap; if we do something 
+else; we should have another app.
+
+> > however, we will have need of this soon; and it should also take into
+> > account co-maintainers...
+> 
+> That's the group thing, yes (be it explicit or implicit).
+> 
+> Romain
+