On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 09:24:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > On the other hand I fully agree doing dozens or hundreds of uploads just > > > because an address out of my control became invalid is a huge waste of > > > ressources that are better spent elsewhere. However, that's why > > > alioth-lists was created. > > > > We have switched to a common mailing list on lists.debian.org: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-tools/ > > > > But this list should not get bug reports and usual package maintainance > > mail. It's a discussion list between team members. > > A lot of other teams are in this situation. And no one seems to know what > are we supposed to do. So the results are quite... random. > > For example, on my packages: > 4 have Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > 1 has Debian Desktop Theme Team <darkcold-gtk-th...@packages.debian.org> > 2 (in NEW) have debian-fo...@lists.debian.org > > The first four are traditional, and just became buggy as that list has been > migrated to l.d.o rather than not-yet-then-announced alioth-lists (which is, > as I understand, only a temporary measure). I need to fix those. > > The next one, has only the human name matching, with some crap as e-mail. > Most tools match by the latter, thus this scheme doesn't seem to work. I'll > change it as soon as anyone tells me _what_ to switch to. > > The last two have a good working maintainer address, but violate the rules > for l.d.o lists (as you say, these shouldn't get maintainership mails). That "requirement" doesn't exist. What we said is: we don't want maintainership **only** lists. If you have a combined discussion and maintainership mail list thats fine.
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