[Mageia-dev] buildsystem => maintainers db link test

Wed Mar 23 17:39:25 CET 2011

Hi there,
+
+maintdb is making some progress and we could test it already with the
+buildsystem to push it some data.
+
+Here is how it works so far:
+ * a package P gets submitted by ennael;
+ * buildsystem builds it;
+ * buildsystem POSTs (P, ennael) to maintdb;
+ * maintdb keeps a record of that;
+ * as a default, ennael (first person to push the package) is the
+official maintainer of the package; later people pushing the same
+package would be co-maintainer;
+ * we will implement in maintdb a method to manually change that
+(assigning maintainance to someone specific);
+ * we can envision maintdb to keep stats of submissions as well.
+
+Maintdb dev instance is here: http://www.maintdb2.mageia.org.uk/
+
+(see current spec on
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:maintdb#specs_actions )
+
+Misc righly pointed out that:
+ * someone triggering a massive rebuild may not want to be seen as a
+maintainer of packages uploaded by this; several possible solutions:
+   - first uploader is set as the maintainer by default;
+   - this will be manually editable from the maintdb app anyway;
+   - would a specific flag be raised in the buildsystem (or a package)
+when such a massive rebuild is triggered?
+   - instead of strict associations, we can associate maintainership
+by frequency of uploads/activity on a given package (unless massive
+rebuilds are triggered more often by a single packager than "regular"
+package uploads by the actual maintainer)
+ * submissions stats publishing may require your validation (and
+actually, for that specifically and future topics, we'll need to see
+how we can publish contributors activity stats through our platform -
+as a de-facto feature or as a preference, per contributor).
+
+Anyway, in all that, we need your input.
+
+Thanks!
+
+Romain
+