[aur-general] community back-end rewrite

[bardo]

Heh. This happens when you don't read all of your e-mails before
answering. So, here's a bit of copy 'n paste from my last message, and
some new thoughts.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> In the TU meetings there was some discussion about doing a
> rewrite/update/fix-up of the [community] back-end.  I am not sure who all is
> looking at this and what the plans are - hence this email.

I think the only work done is in AUR2, but I don't know if they have
touched the backend. Could any of the involved people update us on its
status?

> Can people who are looking at this or interested in looking at this give a
> ping back to this message with whatever plans you have or work you have
> already done.

From my lst mail:
«This is a very important point, IMHO, which we need to discuss with
the AUR2 guys. In fact I think we could, as we say in Italian, "catch
two pigeons with one broad bean" :) and plan the backend changes to
include the move to SVN. Personally, I'd like to see an independent
RCS layer so that we won't see this situation again when we need to
move to $ZOMGCOOLRCS.»

> Things I want to flag:
> - we should get a git repo for a community-backend project on the arch
> server and separate this from the aur site code. - we should switch SCM
> tools from CVS.  I am strongly in favour of using the same system as the
> main repos which would allow much code reuse and easily get us a testing
> repo for community packages. (No more big rebuild issues!).

Here I agree with Loui: it doesn't make sense to separate the AUR and
the [community] backend, they are tightly coupled and so they should
be. The risk is to break things if two groups move independently.
And I'm not really sure we could reuse some code, but writing an SCM
abstraction layer that makes us independent from CVS and SVN could be
userful for the main repos, too. I don't think it's a stupid idea
because we just need the basic operations that every SCM provides...

Corrado