Hi there, it looks like we will need a database to know who maintains what, basically.
It used to be http://maintainers.mandriva.com/ - its source code has no explicit license, so we've got to build this again. I drafted a very quick page for this here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=web:maintdb with basic entites and relationships. Now, it would good to know what packagers (and others) need for this. For instance: * instead of having a single maintainer for a given package, have several maintainers (with an admin maybe) over a given package (easy); * should there be groups of packages defined? (this adds/replicates some logic that may already be somewhere else) * should there be explicity groups of maintainers? or implicit (as made of people maintaining the same package)? * should there be (customizable) alerts/warnings for people, when a new package is added, or removed, or that has no more maintainer? * ? Thing is, this should be a really small, basic, simple component app. So it plays easily with other components. I don't know how this could be implemented/used or replaced by mageia-app-db however. Thanks for your insights. Cheers, Romain