Re: [Rdo-list] Packaging the big tent (or at least part of it)

On 05/27/2015 05:44 PM, Graeme Gillies wrote: > On 05/28/2015 05:24 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:21:12PM +0200, Haïkel wrote: >>>> Not sure I follow that — it seems similar to the existing pkgdb EPEL >>>> and Fedora branches, isn't it? >> [...] >>> If there was a possibility to improve that setup, I'm willing to give >>> it a shot but we'd have at best to manage 2 instances >>> of pkgdb. >> >> Oh, yeah, I was assuming a dedicated instance... On the theory that two >> instances of the same thing is more desirable than one instance of this >> and another instance of that. >> > > While I think having an instance of pkgdb to maintain the ever growing > package base in RDO is a good thing (especially as people start needing > different acls for different packages for different projects), I still > feel it's worthwhile having something higher level (even if it's just a > wiki page) tracking the big tent projects themselves by name, and who is > responsible for them (maybe links to some of the packages in pkgdb). > Could also include a small description of the project, link to the git > repo, and maybe a link to the bugzilla bug component for it. > > >From a user perspective pkgdb is a bit too low level (trying to figure > out the package name for a project can be non-trivial sometimes, and > some projects are complicated and have more than one "main package"). > All I want to know is "Is Designate in RDO? If not, has someone > committed to packaging it? What's its progress? If it's in RDO, who's > responsible for it? How do I flag problems?". > > Then if someone (perhaps from a project itself) wants to get it into > RDO, we can have a small workflow for getting it review, dist git > branches setup, and the page officially updated to say this project is > incoming to RDO (and then updated when it's officially in). > > I'll volunteer to help run/maintain such a page/db if people think it's > a good idea +1, I have no objection to someone investigating pkgdb usage, but I agree with all of your points above. This is more about high level status and advertising what's in RDO and what's planned on getting into RDO Go ahead and start a page. I think this is something we'd want linked off of the main rdoproject.org page