Re: Interoperability with forges - Was: Re: DEP-2: Debian Package Maintenance Hub
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Since alioth is used by quite a lot of Debian teams of individual
> maintainers, it seems to me that it would be great if the new system and
> alioth projects could be integrated somehow.
IMO the main "integration" will be to extract data from the VCS hosted on
alioth.
I don't see what else do you expect.
> If we consider Continuous Integration scenari, for instance, it would be
> great to have the possibility to build and prepare packages from alioth
> projects, and run tests before being able to upload them.
I don't see why such a project should be developed within DPMH. We might
provide some info about its existence and the location of the repository
with auto-built packages... but I don't see it going further, at least not
in the short term.
> Also, reusing existing solutions to avoid having to develop some
> low-level components.
Sure, which one? :-)
> LaunchPad seems to closed to me too.
It's open source and it's in Python too. But I doubt that there's much to
reuse... I might be wrong.
> Maybe Allura [0], the new AGPL software used by SourceForge could be a
> candidate, as it seems much more modern, Python based, and seems to have
> been developped with performance / distribution constraints in mind.
>
> It seems to be quite modular, but I haven't been able to conduct a
> thoroughful enough study of it.
As I said, I don't see much in common between DPMH and a forge. Maybe some
parts to handle mailing lists but I don't see anything else that could be
useful...
Cheers,
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