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Maintainers db

Role: to state who is maintaining what package.

See http://maintainers.mandriva.com (although its source is unlicensed, hence the need here).

Application information

Specification

Entities:

  • a person (id, name, email)
  • a source package (id, name, last commit timestamp, in which media, active or not)
  • a package (id, source package id, name)

Relations:

  • a source package may be maintained by several persons, of which one should be admin
  • a source package may be compiled into several packages

This app should publish:

  • all registered person that maintain at least one package
  • all registered packages and their maintenance status (active or not)
  • for a given person, all related packages/teams
  • for a given package, source package and/or all related persons
  • statistics about maintainers and packages

v0:

  • for a given source package, we want to know who maintains it (can be several persons), last activity (commit) on this package and consequent RPMs
  • for a given person, we want to know what packages are maintained by
  • we want to make and break such links between people and packages
  • implicit groups

v0.1:

  • logging in (authentication against Mageia LDAP)
  • self manage ones links
  • add packages manually?

later?

  • have a primary maintainer * restrictions: * if no maintainer is set: anyone can grab and will also be the primary maintainer * if no primary maintainer is set; noone can grab anything; but other maintainers can grab primary maintainership * if maintainers are set: then person might want to grab maintainership (not primary), but should be allowed by primary maintainer (optional)
  • add-hoc, explicit groups