[aur-general] community back-end rewrite

[Daenyth Blank]

>> In short: the community backend should really just accept packages via
>> upload (authenticated, or course), dump them in a common location
>> (/home/aur/staging) and then setup a cronjob to run db-update
>> periodically. This cronjob should also find packages in the db.tar.gz
>> and not in CVS and run db-remove on them.
>>
>> If we can collaborate enough on this, we could even use the same
>> functionality for extra and core.
>
> Note that the above regarding db-update requires a move to svn at the
> same time. I do not plan to add special code to deal with CVS
>
Regarding db-remove: I think is is an _absolute_ requirement that
packages be easily moved back to unsupported. Currently the only way
is to delete it entirely and re-upload as a new package (losing all
related metadata). It's really horrible, and I think contributes to
the glut of useless stuff in community at the moment.