Re: Results of the salsa sprint

[Sean Whitton]

Hello salsa admins,

Thank you for your work during the sprint.  Here is some feedback as
requested:

On Sat 28 Nov 2020 at 06:49PM +01, Alexander Wirt wrote:

> Namespaces for groups
> 
>
> Currently we do have a frontend to enforce a specific naming for
> groups (-team). We are thinking about removing that restriction. We
> would love to get some feedback about it. Unless no-one objects with
> some good reasoning we plan to remove it during the next months.

I navigate to resources on salsa by either typing full URLs into my
browser, or typing URLs into my shell after 'git clone'.  I am very
rarely logged in to the web interface.

Having a defined naming for groups makes it significantly easier for me
to correctly type the URL for the repo I want on my first try.

I suspect that without the -team suffix I'd end up having to use salsa's
search engine much more often.  I would prefer not to have to do that.

-- 
Sean Whitton


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udd-mirror moved to a new host!

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Dear developers,

We are hereby announcing that udd-mirror.debian.net, after 7 years of
being hosted by XVM at MIT (http://xvm.mit.edu/), now moved to fosshost
(https://fosshost.org/).

We wish to thank MIT for hosting this service for so long, as well as
thank fosshost in advance for the many years to come!

You can read a bit of history regarding udd-mirror on Asheesh's
blogpost:
https://announce.asheesh.org/2020/11/the-ultimate-debian-database-and-why-i-co-host-a-public-mirror-of-it/

With this occasion, we are also formally deprecating the old address
public-udd-mirror.xvm.mit.edu in favour of the "new"
udd-mirror.debian.net that has been available for more than three years.
Please consider updating your scripts that connect to udd-mirror to use
the new address, as the old one will be phased out in the future (no
sooner than one more year at least).


In this move, we also changed the deployment method, storing the whole
database in docker.  Even though we don't foresee any problem for the
users, please do report any unexpected errors you might see.
Feel free to use the GitHub project to open tickets or send pull
requests: https://github.com/paulproteus/public-udd-mirror

On the other hand, this new host is much more performant than the old
one, and as such you should see a huge speed improvement when you run
your queries :)


Hoping to still be of service,
Asheesh Laroia
Mattia Rizzolo

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