On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 08:05:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote: > > > > > Sure, and some people prefer GitHub or Gitlab or their own git server. > > > Different strokes for different folks. > > > > They should in any case be in sync, providing I remember to keep them > > so. The Vcs-Url in d/control will remain the git.debian.org one. > > IMHO that's not matter of personal preference but a matter of how to > work together in a Debian maintainers team. There are tools working on > git.debian.org but not elsewhere. I keep on thinking that a Debian R > maintainers group would make a lot of sense and R packages should be > maintained on alioth.
Yup. Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and debian-med. Scaling benefits are there; I don't think moving to a new debian-r would improve stuff _that_ much. Also, R packages is not exactly dh-r. Having all R packages semi-centrally maintained would be nice. I am not quite sure wether having dh-r in the same group would bring very huge benefits. Bye, Joost