[fab] Proposed Plan for Split of Fedora-Announce-List

[Michael Tiemann]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 12:08 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:

> 3) Make package announcements backed by a database
> --------------------------------------------------
> We should have all of this information stored in a database.  Generated
> from this database are a number of both push & pull representations like:
> - Package update and security advisory list announcements
> - RSS feeds
> - Canonical package update website (links from RSS feed point here)
> - Metadata for pirut and pup
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/fedora-updates.png
> Luke Macken's previous work on the Fedora Update tracking system that we
> currently use only internally give us a head start in these goals.  It
> would be fairly easy to build upon this existing foundation, but only
> after we achieve a few other objectives.  (Putting the Fedora Updates
> system in the public requires some design considerations for proper
> handling of Embargo and possibly other aspects related to the Fedora
> distribution merge.)
> 
> Thoughts?

I will volunteer to help with the database design and testing, and
feature enhancement requests.  I prefer to write SQL to C++ these days--
go figure!  I cannot volunteer to actually run the production system,
but do think it would be fun to make this system a window into Fedora
development.

M