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Re: SVN on Alioth?



Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> writes:
> On Thu September 28 2006 17:08, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:58:24 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:

>>> Why does http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpkg/ not show any
>>> released files,

>> Because we upload them to Debian?

> I don't understand that question.

Why would you ever use Alioth's file upload capability for a Debian
project as opposed to simply uploading the package to Debian?

>> That you'll have to ask the alioth admins. But it's easy to track, we
>> have several mailing lists and then there's the svn repo itself.

> Which mailing lists and how do interested parties subscribe to them?

Well, you're writing to one of them....  :)

> How does one access the "SVN repository on Alioth"?

http://svn.debian.org/

> "Project Home Page" links to the non-existent http://www.dpkg.org

> "Mailing Lists"  says "0 public mailing lists"

> the "Anonymous FTP Space" is empty

> "Latest News" shows "No News Items Found"

> Generally, http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dpkg/ looks like a project 
> which died before it ever started.

Or, well, like pretty much every other project on Alioth, since none of
that stuff except for the mailing lists and every once in a while the home
page tends to be useful.  Mostly people use Alioth for the Subversion
access it controls and occasionally for mailing lists.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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