[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Fri Nov 5 17:52:22 CET 2010

Op woensdag 03 november 2010 23:27:12 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> Hello to everyone,
+> 
+> While things are setting up (infrastructure, teams...), which will allow us
+> all to begin real work on our new linux distribution as soon as possible,
+> a new project is coming to life. We want to produce a website dedicated to
+> mageia's packages, and whose main goals would be : - allow to browse the
+> package database, provide the main informations about packages, like any
+> other distribution does (see http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for
+> example). - focus on interaction between users, testers and packagers
+> (backports requests and voting, new soft requests and voting, and the
+> other way round : testing requests from packagers to users) - customizable
+> user notifications on your home page, RSS feed or e-mail (new backport
+> available for you preferred soft, new update candidate available and
+> awaiting testing...)
+> 
+> I tried to explain this project there :
+> http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/MageiaAppDb
+> 
+> It was announced yesterday during the founders meeting :
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings
+> 
+> The project is at its very beginning, and the task is huge, so we'll
+> proceed step by step. You can see our temporary roadmap here :
+> http://github.com/agallou/mageia-app-db/wiki/ROADMAP
+> 
+> We will probably need help, however this is too soon for me to say exactly
+> on what parts of the project (testing, development, translation,
+> artwork...). I'll send a mail to the mageia-webteam mailing list to
+> discuss this with people who are interested, in the following days (apart
+> from this thread, future discussion on the project will mainly happen on
+> the mageia-webteam mailing list).
+> 
+> Right now, I'm mainly interested in your comments on this project, and also
+> welcome any suggestions about the needs we have to answer (did we forget
+> something ?), and ideas of functionalities. It doesn't mean we'll be able
+> to implement everything, but at this stage I want to envision every
+> possible idea :)
+> 
+> Best regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)
+
+i don't know if this is also the purpose for this; but what about:
+ - adding the maint.mandriva.com functionality: ie: setting the maintainer(s).
+ - having multiple maintainers per package (src.rpm)
+
+Kind regards,
+
+Maarten
+