On Tue November 4 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
2. this stuff can change during the (sub)package life, bugzilla only
has
the initial state (and not even all the packages, early packages are not
in there)
I agree that bugzilla is not a good choice for this.
3. that pushes more logic infra-side, which is not nice for third
parties (and we want third parties to be comfortable creating their own
private additions to Fedora)
I cannot follow here, because third parties still can use the comps file that
any frontend will spit out.
4. that would mean packagers need to control the way their package
appears in comps in two different places (unless you generate the whole
file from this other place, which almost certainly rules out bugzilla
and is contrary to 3. anyway), which means more packager hassle and
something we want to avoid
I would enjoy a useful UI to edit groups, because I have to edit it around
once for each package I bring into Fedora, so a well designed UI can help a
lot here, that too manually search trough a huge xml file to find a
appropriate category. Also I do not see any reason why not both should be
possible, i.e. use packagedb as a frontend to edit comps and still store it
in some scm, where anyone interested can edit it manually.
Regards,
Till