2008/9/20 Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey devs, > > I think our current method of organizing maintainership of packages is not > optimal. One problem is that we loose those meta information from time to time > (we have 2667 orphaned packages atm). Also the webinterface for adopting > packages is not the best solution I could think of. You have to adopt every > single arch and if you put a package into testing you'll have to adopt it > again. > > On the other side we have the Maintainer tag within our PKGBUILDs since a long > time, but we don't make use of it. My idea would be parsing those tags > (multipile maintainers should be possible) with makepkg and put those > information in every package. In addition to this repo-add should store this > data in the db-files, too. > > That would make things a lot easier, more robust (we have all data stored in > svn) and consistent. This would also decrease the complexity of the > webfrontend a lot; it allready reads data from the sync-dbs. > > And last but not least support could be added to pacman to display the > mainter(s). ATM it only shows the packager which confuses some people.
I'm all for it; it would make the web interface more robust. I don't think the issue with packages being orphaned will come up again, but having that data accurate in each PKGBUILD and .pkg.tar.gz file would make the entire world a much better place. (Especially greenland) Dusty
