Re: Fwd: Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian
Hola a todos.
En la lista debian-doc he visto el siguiente mensaje:
> Just a note that I've moved the CVS for my "Introducing Debian GNU/Linux"
> flyer to debianintro.alioth.debian.org Maybe other DDP documents ought
> to move to alioth too?
>
Segun esto, se van a mover los CVS de toda la documentacion a Alioth?
(si en debian-doc responden antes que en esta lista, les comentare)
Mon, 31 de Mar de 2003, 09:55:30PM +0200. Manuel Samper wrote:
>Hola, acabo de ver esto en debian-devel-announce y me parece perfecto
>para la coordinación de la traducción de las DWN, pues es igual que el
>CVS que ha montado José Carlos, pero bendecido por Debian.
>
>No sé si alguno ya lo sabía o participa en alioth, así que lo mando por
>si interesa migrar el CVS actual de las DWN a alioth. Y por si alguien
>tiene en mente algún proyecto de documentación/traducción y precisa usar
>un CVS.
>
> Manuel Samper
>From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
>Subject: Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:19:54 +0100
>To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
>User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>This message announces the birth of a new service:
>http://alioth.debian.org/
>
> Alioth is a Sourceforge installation dedicated to Debian. Before
>going into details, I'd like to thank Roland Mas and Christian Bayle
>who packaged Sourceforge (and it's not something easy!). Special
>kudos to Roland Mas and Wichert Akkerman who worked together to set
>it up and to make some modifications for Debian (so that each Debian
>developer has his usual account mostly ready to use, for example).
>
>Project approval policy
>
>Alioth offers the same range of services than Sourceforge but only
>to projects which met certain criteria. Here are the guidelines
>we're going to follow when approving project submissions:
>
>We'll approve all those projects:
>- Free software or free documentation (as defined by the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines) authored by Debian developers, or free
> software/documentation where a Debian developer is heavily
> involved (part of the core team for example). The project request
> should ideally be done by a Debian developer.
>- Free documentation concerning Debian or any of its derivatives.
>
>We may also approve other projects on a case by case basis, for
>example:
>- Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> promote Debian.
>- Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> promote free software in general, if those initiatives are backed
> by Debian or by a group a Debian developers.
>- Any other project where you can convince the Alioth's
> administrators that it will help Debian achieve World Domination.
>
>What is it good for ?
>
>Alioth has big advantages:
>- creating a project is easy and it offers you full control over
> many services
>- it is open to non-Debian developers and you can easily grant
> rights (for example CVS write access) to external contributors
>
>Thus Alioth is particularly suited for:
>- Debian specific software that could be used by third parties
> (who'd be able to easily contribute). I would give the "Debian
> menu system" as an example.
>- Documentation where many external contributors (authors,
> translators, reviewers) are typically involved.
>- Subprojects like DebianEdu where many contributors are not (yet)
> Debian developers, and where we want to federate/integrate
> projects which started without any links to Debian.
>
>But Alioth can still be used for projects/tasks of limited scope:
>for example comaintenance of packages can be done on Alioth (by
>using the CVS repository).
>
>How to use my Debian Developer account ?
>
>Your account already exists. You just have to change your password
>by following the instructions on this page:
>https://alioth.debian.org/account/lostpw.php (the URL will be mailed
>to your @debian.org email account). Very recent new developers may
>not have their account created at exactly the same time on Alioth as
>on other Debian servers, but the delay is worked on.
>
>How to use Alioth if I'm not an official developer ?
>
>Just click on the "New user via SSL" link and create your account from
>there. Your account name will include a "-guest" suffix, so that we
>can avoid namespace conflicts with "real" Debian developers. Apart
>from that limitation, your account is not crippled.
>
>Expectations
>
>We hope that this service will show that the Debian community is a
>very active part of the free software community. Hopefully it will
>also help us by letting more people contribute to Debian without
>going through the complete new maintainer system. It should also
>help collaborative package maintenance, thus increasing the general
>quality of Debian.
>
>Why "Alioth"?
>
>Well, we had to pick a name. Lots of names were suggested, most of
>which were references to movies, books, cartoons or whatever. These
>references were not necessarily understood by people from all over the
>world (not everywhere can you watch the Simpsons or Goldorak on TV),
>and the names had not much significance apart from these references.
>The Alioth name was primarily chosen as a reference too, but this one
>is less bound to geographical origin of the users: it's the capital
>system for the Alliance of Independent Systems in the Frontier First
>Encounters game. I'm not saying everyone here played this game, but
>it's more likely that you have at least heard of it, whereas you
>probably have no clue who Actarus is unless you're French, male, and
>23 to 30 years old. Oh, and as a bonus, Alioth is a real star, in the
>constellation of Ursa Major (as any Google search will tell you).
>
>We hope you'll enjoy this new service !
>
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