AUR co-maintainers

[alhirzel]

I primarily use Repology to stay caught up on package updates needed for several AUR packages I maintain. Had an idea for a feature: support listing the packages that a user co-maintains on the AUR (rather than just packages they maintain). Perhaps this would be an additional option when searching (like it is on the AUR), or perhaps it would just happen by default. I don't whether this concept maps onto other repositories - perhaps that would determine the UX.

[AMDmi3]

I wasn't aware that AUR already publishes information on co-maintainers. Since it does, supporting that would be trivial.

[alhirzel]

This is great to hear. Perhaps it would even make a good "first contribution" for someone, if UX defined well? I am unfortunately not in a position to make this contribution, but after reviewing the code base briefly when submitting this idea, it seemed accessible!

[AMDmi3]

Sure, if someone does this change it would be very welcome: I'm currently traveling and may not have time for this for a few days.

Here's the relevant code:

repology-updater/repology/parsers/parsers/aur.py

Lines 45 to 46 in edcf76c

	if 'Maintainer' in pkgdata and pkgdata['Maintainer']:
	pkg.add_maintainers(extract_maintainers(pkgdata['Maintainer'] + '@' + self._maintainer_host))

The change would involve adding similar 2-3 lines of code which loop over CoMaintainers field if it's present.

Here's how relevant json look like:

  {
    ...
    "Maintainer": "ttc0419",
    "CoMaintainers": [
      "meepzh"
    ]
  },