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Re: Alioth tracker



Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 11.05.2014, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> 
> On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker?
[...]
> 
> Other people have had problems with alioth too:
> 
> - write permissions on VCS directory for new projects

and by takeover as new maintainer.
It's really not good that a new package version is online and in Vcs is
only a old version.


> 
> - mailing list creation requests waiting for admin approval
> 
> On non-Debian sites (e.g. Sourceforge, github) things like this are
> fully automated (for better or worse).
> 
[...]

> For repositories:
> - would moving to a single tool (e.g. Git) make it easier to automate
> and help to eliminate the bugs we currently see on alioth?
> - could we have a debian.org solution (alioth or elsewhere) that
> automatically mirrors all Git repositories that DDs maintain themselves
> on github or other public locations?

and / or DD can approve the rights to the maintainers.

> Any of these things could help reduce the admin burden, maybe there are
> other approaches too?
+1


Regards,
Jörg



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