[Mageia-webteam] Maintdb

Sun Mar 6 15:29:28 CET 2011

On Sun, 06 Mar 2011, Kosmas Chatzimichalis wrote:
+
+> Hi,
+> 
+> Anyone wishing to try out the maintainers db, the staging server is here:
+> 
+> http://www.maintdb2.mageia.org.uk/maintainers_spackages
+> 
+> Any comment, suggestions, breakages (I know about one ;-) ), welcome.
+
+I think the first version should be made as simple as possible, with
+only the minimal features we need, to have something ready to use soon.
+So for now I think it should only have this :
+ - For the database, a table which includes a list of source package
+   names with corresponding maintainer login. And nothing else in the
+   database for the first version. I don't think a table for maintainers
+   is needed.
+ - a URL with authentication which will be accessed by the build system
+   to add automatically a new source package, with maintainer login
+ - a URL to print the maintainer login of all source packages in the
+   database (and a version without html, so it can be used by other tools)
+ - a URL to print the packages maintained by someone (using the login)
+ - a website using ldap for authentication, to allow maintainers to drop
+   maintainership of their package (which become unmaintained), and take
+   maintainership of unmaintained packages
+
+And it should not have :
+ - a table in the database including name and email of maintainers, as
+   this info is already stored in ldap.
+ - a page to create a new maintainer, as there is no maintainer table
+   needed, so no need to add them somewhere. Only the login name should
+   be used to identify maintainers.
+ - a page to create a new source package, as it should be done
+   automatically by the build system and not from the web site
+ - a page for compiled packages. For maintainership, we only care about
+   source packages.
+
+