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

[Florian La Roche]

> 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.)

I am sure Karel Zak would also contribute to the database and addon
infrastructure. Warren, are you leading up the above items and is there
some official "collection point" (wiki?) on where the details are put
together?

regards,

Florian La Roche