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 > <[email protected]> > > The only option that I know of is to replace that with > [email protected]. 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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