[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

Sat Dec 18 12:00:52 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:55:39PM +0100, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> 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.
+> 
+> > 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.
+
+I think we should use a simple sql database for now.
+
+Even if later, ldap could help use to set ACL, and tree structure for packages
+( ie, the grouping feature of packages you spoke of ), I think we should aim first
+for a very basic application :
+
+1 srpm -> 1 to N maintainers, 
+
+and that's all.
+
+Later, we can think more thoroughly about this, and likely rewrite.
+But the initial goal was to reuse mdvdb because
+it was the fastest route. So we should not forget about it. If we use a quick
+and dirty django application with basic CRUD to manage that, it should be fine.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer 
+