Package categorization and distribution construction

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> On 01/18/2012 09:30 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Later it was brought up that it may just be simpler to create a second file
> > of metadata, similar to the comps file, that just contains lists of
> > categorized packages. (i.e., #3 above.)
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> One of the ideas that we've been seriously considering implementing is a
> Fedora specific extension to DOAP, where the DOAP files would be checked
> into git. It should be straightforward to add a Fedora extension field
> for "tags", allowing the maintainer to add tags, along with other useful
> metadata about the package that we don't know from other sources.
> 
> Then, tagger/packages can simply read in the DOAP files and use those
> tags in addition to the user-generated ones.

The concern that was raised from infrastructure is that scouring package git
for DOAP (or any other metadata files) might be prohibitive in cost to do
regularly. PackageDB would be simpler, of course (maybe have git hooks that
populate PackageDB on commit?)

Bill