[Mageia-webteam] Maintainers db app questions

Mon Jan 24 19:37:48 CET 2011

Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 18:07 +0000, Kosmas Chatzimichalis a écrit :
+> A few questions about the maintainers db application, that are more detailed
+> than the initial spec.
+> 
+> 
+>    - Do we need first name, surname for maintainers or we would only be
+>    using email?
+
+mhh, what about login + email ? 
+I do not fully understand the question
+
+>    - If we do store first name, surname are they compulsory, or can be
+>    omitted?
+I would rather fetch them from ldap, or at least, make ldap the
+reference for that, and keep the information in the db as cache, so
+people have one location to change everything.
+
+>    - Where do we take the information from? Is there a database at the
+>    moment, that we can take maintainers, packages information?
+We don't have anything yet.
+
+>    - If information is taken initially from another database, where is the
+>    new information created? Or in other words, do we create new media,
+>    maintainer, package in the app or is that created somewhere else?
+A good question.
+Maintainers list come from ldap.
+
+Media should IMHO be not required, but if needed, I would rather have a
+list somewhere acting as a reference. ( maybe ldap ? ). Some people
+spoke of having different maintainers for stable and devel, but I do not
+think we are enough to have that. 
+
+Packages are not stored anywhere yet, and I do not know if someone
+planned something. But packages would likely be created on upload by a
+script, with the people uploading becoming the maintainer.
+
+>    - How do we integrate with ldap? 
+for authentication I think
+
+> Would that be used to lookup for
+>    administration permissions for maintainers? Or would we need different users
+>    as admins that are not necessarily maintainers.
+I would use the following permissions :
+- define a group for people who can connect on the interface ( like,
+packagers )
+- define a group that can connect as admin ( like be able to change
+anything, ie sysadmins )
+
+That was the scheme used at Mandriva, and I think it is sufficient, 
+So yes, using ldap for admin permission is a good idea.
+
+>    - Would the first maintainer be the admin for a particular package?
+That could be done, yes but some people would maybe prefer more than 1
+admin, or shared admins with everybody. I can ask during meeting on
+Wednesday the opinion of others packagers.
+
+>    - Can the admin of a package be changed later on?
+That's imho required, yes.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+