Re: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 09:24:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > > On the other hand I fully agree doing dozens or hundreds of uploads just
> > > because an address out of my control became invalid is a huge waste of
> > > ressources that are better spent elsewhere. However, that's why
> > > alioth-lists was created.
> >
> > We have switched to a common mailing list on lists.debian.org:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-tools/
> >
> > But this list should not get bug reports and usual package maintainance
> > mail. It's a discussion list between team members.
>
> A lot of other teams are in this situation. And no one seems to know what
> are we supposed to do. So the results are quite... random.
>
> For example, on my packages:
> 4 have Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 1 has Debian Desktop Theme Team <darkcold-gtk-theme@packages.debian.org>
> 2 (in NEW) have debian-fonts@lists.debian.org
>
> The first four are traditional, and just became buggy as that list has been
> migrated to l.d.o rather than not-yet-then-announced alioth-lists (which is,
> as I understand, only a temporary measure). I need to fix those.
>
> The next one, has only the human name matching, with some crap as e-mail.
> Most tools match by the latter, thus this scheme doesn't seem to work. I'll
> change it as soon as anyone tells me _what_ to switch to.
>
> The last two have a good working maintainer address, but violate the rules
> for l.d.o lists (as you say, these shouldn't get maintainership mails).
That "requirement" doesn't exist. What we said is: we don't want
maintainership **only** lists. If you have a combined discussion and
maintainership mail list thats fine.
Alex - Debian Listmaster
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