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

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 12:23 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes. The ability of people outside of Red Hat to check the status and
even resolve issues is important.

Rahul