PackageDB progress

[Mike McGrath]

On 12/29/06, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a followup to yesterday's meeting, I've finished converting the
> owners.py script that imports owners.list and cvs information into the
> database.  A sync against what's currently in owners.list has been added
> to the postgres database on test3 (where we're doing the packagedb
> testing.)
>
> To people who'd like to help out with the backend here's the tasks we
> have:
> 1) look over the db schema posted last week and propose changes.
> 2) Enhance the owners.py script to convert RHL and EPEL branches as well
> as FC branches.
> 3) c4chris has been working on getting review requests and approval
> information into the database.  There are a pair of files
> APPROVED_trim.txt and REQUESTS_trim.txt on the server that have
> information from the mailing list approvals at the beginning of Extras.
> A build_list perl script that c4chris is working on transforms these
> into a csv file.  Someone can work on pushing this data into the
> database.
> 4) Storing Groups and Categories for comps generation could be worked
> on.  I have some ideas for the database schema but nothing solid yet.
>
> I'm gong to start working on a minimal TurboGears front end next with
> the idea of being able to take over from owners.list as a first
> milestone.
>
> -Toshio

Awesome Toshio, seriously.  For those of you out there looking to get
involved, this is a high potential and very visible project to get
involved with.  Any takers?

              -Mike