On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 10:45:51PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-12-23 17:29]:
>
> > I’m nitpicking, but I find it a little bit confusing to have two quite
> > different names for the team: "Debian Octave Group" and
> > "pkg-octave-team". The migration could be the opportunity to unify them.
> >
> > There are many options, but one could be to have the gitlab group called
> > "octave-group" (dropping the "Debian" prefix).
>
> "pkg-octave-team" is the path to the GitLab group. It will appear in the
> Git repository URLs. The suffix "-team" is added automatically. I decided
> to keep the same path as we have in Alioth, namely "pkg-octave". At any
> rate, the group's name at salsa.d.o is "Debian Octave Group", which is our
> traditional name.
Oh, I wasn’t aware that the "-team" suffix was added automatically. I guess
this makes my request even less relevant.
>
> My choice for the path may be have been sub-optimal but I am went ahead
> before seeing Sebastian's reply and created the repositories for the DOG
> packages. Actually, it is easy to do with the CLI provided by ruby-gitlab:
>
> export GITLAB_API_ENDPOINT=https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4
> export GITLAB_API_PRIVATE_TOKEN=<my private token>
> for pkg in $(aptitude search "?maintainer(Debian Octave Group)" -F%e | sort | uniq) ; do
> gitlab create_project $pkg "{namespace_id: 2015, description: 'Debian packaging for $pkg', visibility: 'public'}"
> done
>
> I think that populating the repos can be easily done in an automated way. I
> will look at it soon.
Thanks for preparing the work.
I just noticed that the topic on #debian-devel contains the following:
salsa.d.o status: pre-beta, database reset possible without notice
So we probably shouldn’t rely too much on that infrastructure for the moment.
But obviously all your preparatory work is going to help a lot when the platform
enters production mode.
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