Hi Ingo;The goal would be to be able to nominte a 'publisher' such as a software company and then list the packages produced by that publisher.
Thinking about those existing options; copyright, packager and vendor..."copyright" is variant depending on the year and is human-readable so it is going to be hard to match into a person or entity. There may also be multiple copyright attributes which may be hard to map to a single publisher.
"packager" may not correlate to the person who produced the software. For example, if a company Foo produced a couple of java applications that were packaged by Bar then Bar would be the packager and Foo would be publisher.
"...and the repository owner as the vendor..." (some days ago) -- so the vendor is unlikely to be the right meaning as the publisher is likely to have a package in a repository that is not managed or run by themselves.
My feeling is that there is a justification for an additional field for this data; if not in the HPK* then in the application server's database. My preference would be for the term "publisher".
What are your thoughts on that? BTW; I will be away for a couple of days - so may not reply quickly! Regards; On 11/10/13 10:00 AM, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
On 10/10/2013 02:31 AM, Andrew Lindesay wrote:"Publisher" or "Author" would both make sense to me; I think Ingo is questioning the need for this item in general though?Well, as I wrote, we do already have three somewhat similar attributes (copyright, packager, vendor) and I'm not sure whether the author/publisher may already fit one of those. Mainly because I don't know whom it is supposed to refer to.
-- Andrew Lindesay
