[Mageia-dev] maintainers database

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Tue Dec 21 13:22:15 CET 2010


Le mardi 21 décembre 2010 à 06:48 -0500, andre999 a écrit :
> nicolas vigier a écrit :
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, andre999 wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> We could have a structure something like this :
> >>
> >> Primary key : name of package
> >>
> >> Other fields, 1:1 relation :
> >> - package rpm category (+ subcategory, if any)
> >
> > What is the category ?
> 
> I meant the rpm group tag

That's duplication with the content of the rpm, that is useless for our
use cases. 

If you want a package database, there is sophie.zarb.org ( and its
rewrite, sophie2 ).

> >> - repository
> >> - etc
> >>
> >> Other fields, 1:N relation :
> >> - Packager nickname + packager status (primary maintainer, trainee or
> >> whatever) + real name + email
> >> (The last 2 items could be in a separate table keyed by nickname.)
> >
> > Why duplicate infos from ldap database ? And why would we need that in
> > maintainers db ?
> 
> Basically info in the packager wiki page.
> what ldap database ?

The ldap holding central authentication information ( ie, name, email,
group, etc ), as mentioned on http://blog.mageia.org/?p=173 ( among
others, we also discussed this quite a bit on sysadmin ).

-- 
Michael Scherer



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