MacPorts DB has outdated maintainer information

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The MacPorts DB doesn't seem to be updating ports' maintainers properly.

For example, the ​MacPorts DB page for the q port shows it has no maintainer, but I am its maintainer since r32081.

The pages for ​curl and ​wget show they're maintained by yeled, but I took them over in r28530.

The version information in the Port Packages section of those pages is being updated with new information. But for some reason the maintainer information isn't.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Adding jberry to CC as he is more familiar with MPWA.

[jberry@…]

I can see how this is happening. We actually maintain separate maintainer information for a "port" from any submitted portpkgs. When a new portpkg is submitted where there was no previous information for a port, we set the maintainer. Otherwise, the port maintainer is never set.

This is a policy issue: the general idea behind mpwa is that anybody can submit a portpkg for a port; we don't want to blindly update the port from the latest portpkg submission. Once we have authentication working, we can actually implement support for setting the maintainer of a port, who will then receive special status.

We have a gsoc student working on mpwa; hopefully he can get to this issue. I'm assigning this bug to Rick.

Thanks for the report.

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[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The db has been dead for a while now.