On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/04/2018 12:29 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > > GitLab is the right technology for us and a good improvement comparing to > > Alioth. > > > > I think it is great that we've chosen GitLab as successor to Alioth but how > > would it make you feel if you were told that Salsa is not running on Debian? > > > > That's how I feel... Specifically I'm concerned how GitLab is installed on > > Salsa. > > Hi Dmitry, > > I very much share your feeling, though there's one major blocker atm: > the NEW queue. Pirate Praveen uploaded lots of node packages which are > needed for gitlab, and it's still waiting for approval. Until that's > done, then there wont be any up-to-date Gitlab package in Debian. And > really, version 10.x is so much nicer than 8.x. Of course, not having > 12.x in Unstable prevents it from having an official Stretch backport... > > At the same time, I have sympathy for both the FTP masters: that's A LOT > of packages to review, and the Salsa admins: when they've set the Salsa > service online, there wasn't all of this packaging available, and they > needed it ASAP. > > Let's just hope that all of this goes fast in the right direction so > that the situation is fixed. Please don't expect us to ever switch to packages - that will not happen.
Alex