On Monday 15 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > However there are a few more things to take into account, > please have a look at my reply to Paul: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/ >001759.html > > Sorry for not CC'ing you, I should have though of that. > > Thinking the other way around: Is there anything we could do > to make the central place approach work and feel better for > everybody?
The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central database. It is only the populators of the database that would be distributed. I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough to take the extra hassle. If you make it easy enough for them to contribute to the CPE mapping, i.e. update their debian/controls or metadata.xml, they will (or not :-). Other developers that care more can then extract the data and merge it at the database and do extra maintenance tasks such as updating the substition map. If you make merging easy, I don't see how this hurts the project. Robert
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