On Monday, March 17, 2025 3:57:53 AM Mountain Standard Time Adi Kriegisch wrote:
> Dear Soren, dear Antonio,
>
> thank you very much for all you did in the past and you are
> currently doing to keep a well-shaped version of redmine in Debian!
>
> On Saturday, 15 March 2025 23:34:50 CET Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > Antonio,
> >
> > On Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:28:25 PM Mountain Standard Time
> > Antonio
> Terceiro wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 05:00:57PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > > > 2. We remove multi-tenancy support from the package.
> > > > Although I
> > > > really like the idea of the multi-tenancy feature, I don’t
> > > > like making changes to Debian packages that diverge this much
> > > > from upstream, precisely because they are hard to maintain.
> > >
> > > This.
> >
> > Thanks for your response. Unless someone else responds
> > differently, I will proceed down this route next week.
>
> I would very much like to keep that feature as I am heavily using it
> and I also know of quite a few people using it in a very similar
> way.
>
> If there is anything I could help with, I'd gladly pitch in. Taking
> the lead in development is, unfortunately, out of my scope...
Finding someone who can update and maintain the following patch is the only way we can keep this feature.
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/blob/master/debian/patches/0004-Add-multi-tenancy-support.patch?ref_type=heads
You can read back through this thread for a little information about my experimentation trying to update it before deciding it was beyond my ability.
If nobody steps forward in the next couple of days I will resume the fairly significant task of trying to excise all of the multi-tenancy changes in a way that allows for a safe upgrade of the default instance.
> > > > However, now that we have been shipping this multi-tenancy
> > > > code, I
> > > > really don’t like removing it because it will break some
> > > > current
> > > > installations.
>
> I do really hope, that there will be a future for this tremendously
> useful feature!
>
> Thank you and all the best,
> Adi
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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