Hi,
As some of you may know, I've been the original creator of bts-link[0].
Though, I have currently neither the motivation, nor the time to
maintain it, or run it on a regular basis[1].
I believe bts-link has become an important piece of our infrastructure,
especially for packagers with huge user base, but not only. This is why
it's more than time that I give bts-link to people that have the time to
care about the beast.
Anyways, the information is: I don't intend to maintain or run bts-link
anymore[2], it is up for adoption. If the BTS people wish to inherit the
beast they come first, but any motivated group of people are welcomed.
I believe that the most important things right now would be:
* make it an official Debian service (running from a Debian.org host)
so that one can lift some specific bans that bug trackers
maintainers over the world impose to crawlers ;
* make the code base better so that one can have a comprehensive list
of bugs that bts-link cannot get a status for, which it doesn't
right now. In particular it means that if an upstream bugzilla moves
or something, it gets completely unnoticed right now ;
* maintain the code base, add support for new bugtrackers, ...
Cheers,
[0] http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/
[1] Yes, you understood right, it's still run manually.
[2] I will continue to run it on an irregular basis until it is
properly adopted though.
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·O· Pierre Habouzit
··O madcoder@debian.org
OOO http://www.madism.org
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