[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

Tue Dec 21 10:34:00 CET 2010

Luca Berra a écrit :
+>
+> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:06:36PM +0100, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>> For instance:
+>> * instead of having a single maintainer for a given package, have
+>> several maintainers (with an admin maybe) over a given package (easy);
+> yes please
+>
+>> * should there be groups of packages defined? (this adds/replicates
+>> some logic that may already be somewhere else)
+> this can be useful, many desktop environments consist of more than one
+> core package and development/packaging should be coordinated, so it
+> makes sense.
+>
+>> * should there be explicity groups of maintainers? or implicit (as
+>> made of people maintaining the same package)?
+> i think explicit
+>
+> L.
+
+We could have a structure something like this :
+
+Primary key : name of package
+
+Other fields, 1:1 relation :
+- package rpm category (+ subcategory, if any)
+- repository
+- etc
+
+Other fields, 1:N relation :
+- Packager nickname + packager status (primary maintainer, trainee or 
+whatever) + real name + email
+(The last 2 items could be in a separate table keyed by nickname.)
+
+- Package dependancies (names of other packages)
+- Package provides (names of other packages)
+- etc.
+
+Any of above fields could be chosen as secondary keys.
+
+This is just a quick suggestion, for the purposes of discussion.
+
+It doesn't seem that this sort of info would be useful in
+  mageia-app-db, which is primarily for end-users.
+
+another 2 cents :)
+
+André
+