Greetings all,
After an extended period of testing, I'm officially announcing the PackageDB as open for (some) business.
== What can you do ==
* Add yourself as an owner * Request to be a comaintainer or added to the CC List * Remove yourself from the above * Approve or reject people requesting the above
== What can't you do ==
* Add new packages. The plan is to add a way to enter the package information via a packagedb interface eventually. Once entered, the information will either be queued for a cvsadmin to look at (similar to how requests are handled currently in bugzilla) or the request will automatically happen if a simple test can detect that the review bug was approved. In talks with a limited number of people, the favorite is queueing for an admin. Please discuss this if you think it should happen automatically. [1]_
* Add a branch. This needs a UI created for it as well. I haven't discussed this yet but it seems that adding branches for currently active Fedora (and EPEL) releases should be done automatically when a maintainer requests it. [2]_
* Add another user to a package. Currently, the person has to request the permissions that they want on the package. Then one of the maintainers approves the permissions. I need to code an interface to allow the package maintainers to add another user directly [3]_
.. _[1]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/packagedb/ticket/18 .. _[2]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/packagedb/ticket/65 .. _[3]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/packagedb/ticket/63
== What's Next ==
The next few weeks of effort will be quick bugfixes and making sure we're ready for the branching of packages that will be done near Fedora 8 release.
-Toshio
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