On 12/26/2017 08:28 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Hey *, > > Hope your holidays have been going well. > > As you're all hopefully aware, Alioth has an expiration date [1]: > 2018-05-01, with incoming mail service ending 2018-02-01. > > Therefore we must take action soon, on at least these two topics: > > 1) provide a working mail adress in the Maintainer field. > > Right now, most packages have this set: > Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers > <pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > The only option that I know of is to replace that with > debian-ruby@lists.debian.org. Needs an upload of all packages > in any case (before 2018-02-01 preferably).
I'd prefer if tracker.debian.org allows creation of teams [1] though it is only in discussion stage. I'm worried about the volume of mails, but if that is the only option, we may have to go for it. > > 2) git hosting > > Apparently we have about ~1300 git repositories on alioth. > > I see two options here: > > a) migrate to salsa.debian.org, under a new debian-ruby group. > Would need to request that group from the salsa admins. I prefer ruby-team and -team is the normal choice (javascript team already created js-team). > b) migrate to salsa.debian.org, under the Debian group > ("collab-maint"). > I don't think this is a good idea. > Note that salsa.d.o is currently in beta for another 4 weeks or so, > but given the time pressure, I'd press for starting early. There is a batch import script which we could use [2]. > > Are we using any other alioth services? > > > Best, > Chris > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/09/msg00288.html [2] http://www.df7cb.de/blog/2017/Salsa_batch_import.html
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