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Re: Choice of a Maintainer address for the team



On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:36:00AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > I was not aware of that 3rd option on alioth-lists.debian.net. Are you sure
> > > that there is the possibility of creating a new list there? This does not seem
> > > to be mentioned anywhere.
> > 
> > As far as I remember this is not mentioned anywhere (may be even the
> > contrary was mentioned).  But may be just nobody has asked for that
> > option?  I can not imagine that the "alioth-lists-savers" did extra
> > means to disable the "create new list feature" and maintenance wise
> > having some new lists should be not more work.
> 
> Also remember that alioth-lists.debian.net is only a temporary solution.

In German there is a saying that there is nothing on this world that
lives longer than a provisional arrangement. :-P

> So if
> we adopt that (assuming it is possible), we will have to change again in a
> couple of years.

I agree that's a possible scenario.  However, we share this situation
with lots of other Debian teams and I'm convinced that there will be
some solution we do not need to invent just for r-pkg team.  But your
argument is definitely on the side of "Cons" for this option 3) (of
which we even do not know whether it exists).

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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