Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

[Robert Buchholz]

On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that
> poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write
> access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo
> packagemap entries.  Doing it downstream would hurt the whole project
> in several ways.

To drive the project forward and find cross-distro acceptance, the 
packagemap repo/server has to be the authorative source of information 
for distributions that participate.

However, I see advantages in a distributed model to collect the 
information. Gentoo developers could feed <cpe> tags into the 
metadata.xml of the tree and do not need to sign up to commit to the 
third-party packagemap repository. Synchronizing changed tags to the 
packagemap repository should be easy to automate. Changes in the 
repository could be propagated back to the tree by a designated team of 
Gentoo developers interested in the packagemap project.

I have a feeling other distributions might also favor a model where they 
have more control about the data without giving all their devs access 
to one big repo.


Robert