Re: SVN on Alioth?

[Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>]

On Thu September 28 2006 18:14, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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?

I know nothing about Alioth's file upload capabilities; I was thinking 
that "released" in this context meant anything placed in the 
repository, and expected to see the dpkg source tree.

> >> 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....  :)

That much I figured.  :-)

> > How does one access the "SVN repository on Alioth"?
>
> http://svn.debian.org/

Ah, OK.  "SVN repository on Alioth" != alioth.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.

Is team@dpkg.org a private mailing list for members of the 
alioth.debian.org dpkg project?

Thanks.


- Bruce