Hey guys, I'm working on a script to parse owners.list and import it into the new PackageDB. So far, the biggest hurdle has been that some email addresses in owners.list do not match with the email addresses in the accounts system. I've tracked most of these down with a few exceptions and caveats. extras-qa [] fedoraproject.org: This is the initial qa contact that is entered into bugzilla for bugs on a package. I'd like to discard this information and start fresh in the new packageDB. If a qa-contact should be applied to the package then it should be entered for each package, otherwise there will be no qa-contact. If we are currently using extras-qa to do something useful please let me know so we can work out what's sane to do here. extras-orphan [] fedoraproject.org: For orphaned packages. I think we're going to create an orphan account to fill this. fedora-perl-devel-list [] redhat.com: It appears that perl packages are adding this mailing list to the initial CC list. In the new packageDB, the plan is to have SIG-groups that can watch a package. People in the SIG would get emailed whenever the SIG was modified. Would this be an acceptable alternative or do people want mail to go specifically to the mailing list? Unknown owner: jylitalo [] iki fi: xplanet This package looks like an import from fedora.us times and the rebuilds in FE seem to have been done by someone other than the packager. I'll ping the packager to see if he wants to orphan it. Unknown initialCClist members: aaron.bennett [] olin.edu: ifplugd carsten [] dvdisaster.de: dvdisaster gary_lerhaupt [] dell.com: dkms jwz [] jwz.org: xscreensaver loic [] gnu.org: cal3d, openalpp, osgal, osgcal, poker-engine, poker-eval, pypoker-eval ludovic.rousseau [] gmail.com: pcsc-lite, pcsc-perl, pcsc-tools mystilleef [] gmail.com: scribes pmatilai [] laiskiainen.org: apt, fedora-package-config-apt, synaptic It looks to me as though these are email addresses for upstream maintainers and interested parties within the Fedora Community that have no active packages. In the current packageDB schema, all the references to people ask for further information from the accounts system. This should help with the current out-of-syncedness we see between owners.list/bugzilla and the accounts system. However, it causes problems when we want to add people to the initialCClist that are not in the accountsDB. I see several possible solutions: 1) Allow packagers to add an account for the upstream person in the accountsDB. This account is a member of no groups and has no rights but will be notified of changes to the Fedora Package. 2) Have the upstream person register their bugzilla email address in the accountsDB and sign up for the packages they want to watch themselves. 3) Allow arbitrary email addresses into the packageDB watchers field instead of accountDB id's. Note that the watcher role currently watches more than just bugzilla. (It is also informed of package commits and other per-package notifications.) I think #1 is closer to what we have now than the other two but upstream maintainers may not want to get cvs commit messages for spec file changes. Maybe defining a bugzilla-watcher group combined with #1 would be the best choice? If you have an idea feel free to send it, otherwise I'll forge ahead on the path I've outlined. -Toshio
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