Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I know this, but this specific sub-thread was for the case if the team > > has gotten a list on lists.debian.org (so with public archives already). > > Using the tracker team for automated mail only is fine. > > I have something like ftpmaster

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Raphael, On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:36:41PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > A mailing list is not just helpful to distribute e-mails to certain > > people. The mail archive feature is a very valuable thing to refer to > > previous mails which as far as I understand is not provided by > >

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:10:30PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > 3. If a team manages to get a lists.debian.org address, it's > > > recommended that they switch the Maintainer fields in their

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Raphael, On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:10:30PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > 3. If a team manages to get a lists.debian.org address, it's > > recommended that they switch the Maintainer fields in their packages > > from the Alioth list address to

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:10:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> 3. If a team manages to get a lists.debian.org address, it's >> recommended that they switch the Maintainer fields in their packages >> from the Alioth list address to that address,

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Don't those two last paragraphs contradict each other? Or do you mean that > team subscribers will (still) receive only the automatic maintenance > e-mails? Yes, team subscribers receive only the automatic e-mails forwarded by the various services

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-16 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 16/02/2018 à 14:10, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Yes, you can put team+@tracker.debian.org in your Maintainers fields. eg. team+pkg-secur...@tracker.debian.org for https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-security/ It's possible to use this right now (it will not generate any bounce) but direct

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-02-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > 3. If a team manages to get a lists.debian.org address, it's > recommended that they switch the Maintainer fields in their packages > from the Alioth list address to that address, right? It depends on your choice. But I would not recommend this. I

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:59:24PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I'd hope so too and would be very happy about some confirmation as well. > as I already said several times on several channels: now that there is > someone taking over list.a.d.o it is their job to define dates. The old dates >

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-20 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:29:44AM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > The February date is indeed now very soon and it's unlikely we would > > have this in place in time. However my understanding from the alioth > > admins is that this wasn't a hard

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:29:44AM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > The February date is indeed now very soon and it's unlikely we would > have this in place in time. However my understanding from the alioth > admins is that this wasn't a hard deadline and was proposed before there > was a

Re: Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-20 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 03:25:14PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > According to the schedule [1], incoming mail will be disabled for > mailing lists hosted at Alioth in less than 2 weeks. I am still > confused about what we are recommending that maintainers and teams do, > so I'm asking questions

Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
According to the schedule [1], incoming mail will be disabled for mailing lists hosted at Alioth in less than 2 weeks. I am still confused about what we are recommending that maintainers and teams do, so I'm asking questions now. :) 1. Are the lists still expected to stop accepting new mail on