where to best add queries for additional metadata in Components / tasks

[MangoIV]

Hi! I would like to ask where to best add the queries for additional metadata; at the moment, in the MetaAnalyzer tasks, we only look at version information by name, we would like to extend this with more lookups, currently we're most interested in author, maintainer, organization and primary owner.

Taking Maven as an example, this would require to not only look up the information in the metadata.xml but also to parse POMs, in other repositories it might be easier.

This would probably write directly to the component which would also require to expand on its fields, adding a new one called something like ownerInformation.

I would very much appreciate some input wrt this plan and also where to best add what.

Thank you so much in advance!