Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders
On 0813, Sandro Tosi wrote: >Hello, >a long time ago, we decided to stop using Alioth for the team email >address in Maintainer/Uploaders fields, and onovy mass-committed this >change to our repo; several of our packages (736, according to [1]) >are still using Alioth. > >[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-teams-merged > >Alioth is no longer maintained (or at the very least, our 2 mailing >lists), and the amount of spam received through it is way too high to >be sustainable. > >After the upcoming release of bullseye, I plan to start uploading all >packages that currently use Alioth to migrate them to Tracker (along >with the other pending changes in the git repos). > >I understand it's possible an upload exists in experimental that fixes >it, so i'll try and check for that; it's also likely that if a package >is still using Alioth, their maintainer is longer interested in the >package, but i dont think now it's the time for a mass purge. I also >understand some of these packages will have the team as Uploaders and, >according to our Policy, i should contact the physical person doing >the upload beforehand, but i think that would slow down this process >and i'm ready to deal with the consequences of not following the >Policy to the letter. > >Please let me know if you prefer me to act differently. > >Regards, I think this is a good idea and a rather thankless job. Maintenance things like this always need to be done. Thank you! -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Python BoF at DebConf2021
On 2021-06-15 14 h 32, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > On 2021-06-12 16 h 20, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> The deadline to submit talks for DebConf21 is June 20th and I was >> thinking it would be a good idea to have a Python BoF, as we always do. >> >> Anyone opposed to the idea? >> > > I've submitted the BoF. Chances are it will be approved :P > The Python BoF will be on Aug 27, from 21:00 to 21:45 UTC [1]. Sadly, I have prior engagements and I won't be able to make it. Could someone else take on the task of coming up with an agenda and chairing the BoF? [1]: https://debconf21.debconf.org/talks/20-python-team-bof/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄ OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders
On 2021-08-14 09 h 30, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Sandro (2021.08.14_02:25:21_+) >> [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-teams-merged > > There are more than those, some other variants made it into use too: > > udd=> SELECT COUNT(*), maintainer_email FROM sources WHERE release='sid' AND > maintainer_email LIKE '%python%' GROUP BY maintainer_email; > count |maintainer_email > ---+- > 1 | gst-python...@packages.debian.org > 1 | pkg-python-debian-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > 1 | python-apps-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net > 1 | python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.net > 62 | python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org > 15 | python-modules-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net >713 | python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org > 9 | team+python-modu...@tracker.debian.org >670 | team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org > (9 rows) Good catch. FWIW, I've opened a feature request on Lintian to try to catch those kind of errors [1]. [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991955 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄ OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders
Hi debian-python (2021.08.14_13:30:00_+) > There are more than those, some other variants made it into use too: > > udd=> SELECT COUNT(*), maintainer_email FROM sources WHERE release='sid' AND > maintainer_email LIKE '%python%' GROUP BY maintainer_email; > count |maintainer_email > ---+- > 1 | gst-python...@packages.debian.org > 1 | pkg-python-debian-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org For clarity, I don't mean hijack the things that are obviously other teams :) SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272
Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders
Hi Sandro (2021.08.14_02:25:21_+) > [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-teams-merged There are more than those, some other variants made it into use too: udd=> SELECT COUNT(*), maintainer_email FROM sources WHERE release='sid' AND maintainer_email LIKE '%python%' GROUP BY maintainer_email; count |maintainer_email ---+- 1 | gst-python...@packages.debian.org 1 | pkg-python-debian-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org 1 | python-apps-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net 1 | python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.net 62 | python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org 15 | python-modules-t...@alioth-lists.debian.net 713 | python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org 9 | team+python-modu...@tracker.debian.org 670 | team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org (9 rows) We should fix them all. Generally +1 to your proposal. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272
