Re: What to do for new packages

[Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>]

Hi Felipe,

|--==> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:37:22 -0300, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> said:

  FS> El 18/12/08 14:24 Free Ekanayaka escribió:
  >>|--==> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:55:20 -0300, Felipe Sateler 
  FS> <fsateler@gmail.com> said:
  >>>>* commit messages are copied to both pkg-multimedia-commits@ and the
  >>>>PTS for the relevant package. The former results then in a very busy
  >>>>mailing list but if one is interested only in a specifc package he
  >>>>can just subscribe to the PTS.
  >>
  FS> I just setup this, and I have a problem: the list is members only.
  >>I'm not FS> sure how to deal with this, since I don't think most people
  >>will want to FS> suscribe to the commits list. Specially sporadic
  >>contributors. We should FS> either whitelist mail sent from alioth (is this
  >>possible?), allow non-members FS> posts, or don't send mail there at all.
  >>
  >>If possible I would go for whitelist-ing mail sent from alioth,
  >>mailman should support it, check Privacy Options -> Sender filters
  >>in the list's administrative interface.

  FS> I worked around this by making the script send the mail from the 
  FS> users.alioth.debian.org address of the pusher instead of the committer's 
  FS> address.
  FS> So, when creating the repository, use the setup-repository script that will 
  FS> take care of this.

Nice job.

  FS> BTW, Free, I added you to the project. Welcome :)

Thanks! :)

Free