Op woensdag 03 november 2010 23:27:12 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > Hello to everyone, > > While things are setting up (infrastructure, teams...), which will allow us > all to begin real work on our new linux distribution as soon as possible, > a new project is coming to life. We want to produce a website dedicated to > mageia's packages, and whose main goals would be : - allow to browse the > package database, provide the main informations about packages, like any > other distribution does (see http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for > example). - focus on interaction between users, testers and packagers > (backports requests and voting, new soft requests and voting, and the > other way round : testing requests from packagers to users) - customizable > user notifications on your home page, RSS feed or e-mail (new backport > available for you preferred soft, new update candidate available and > awaiting testing...) > > I tried to explain this project there : > http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/MageiaAppDb > > It was announced yesterday during the founders meeting : > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings > > The project is at its very beginning, and the task is huge, so we'll > proceed step by step. You can see our temporary roadmap here : > http://github.com/agallou/mageia-app-db/wiki/ROADMAP > > We will probably need help, however this is too soon for me to say exactly > on what parts of the project (testing, development, translation, > artwork...). I'll send a mail to the mageia-webteam mailing list to > discuss this with people who are interested, in the following days (apart > from this thread, future discussion on the project will mainly happen on > the mageia-webteam mailing list). > > Right now, I'm mainly interested in your comments on this project, and also > welcome any suggestions about the needs we have to answer (did we forget > something ?), and ideas of functionalities. It doesn't mean we'll be able > to implement everything, but at this stage I want to envision every > possible idea :) > > Best regards > > Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)
i don't know if this is also the purpose for this; but what about: - adding the maint.mandriva.com functionality: ie: setting the maintainer(s). - having multiple maintainers per package (src.rpm) Kind regards, Maarten
