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
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