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Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders

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On 0813, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>Hello,
>a long time ago, we decided to stop using Alioth for the team email
>address in Maintainer/Uploaders fields, and onovy mass-committed this
>change to our repo; several of our packages (736, according to [1])
>are still using Alioth.
>
>[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-teams-merged
>
>Alioth is no longer maintained (or at the very least, our 2 mailing
>lists), and the amount of spam received through it is way too high to
>be sustainable.
>
>After the upcoming release of bullseye, I plan to start uploading all
>packages that currently use Alioth to migrate them to Tracker (along
>with the other pending changes in the git repos).
>
>I understand it's possible an upload exists in experimental that fixes
>it, so i'll try and check for that; it's also likely that if a package
>is still using Alioth, their maintainer is longer interested in the
>package, but i dont think now it's the time for a mass purge. I also
>understand some of these packages will have the team as Uploaders and,
>according to our Policy, i should contact the physical person doing
>the upload beforehand, but i think that would slow down this process
>and i'm ready to deal with the consequences of not following the
>Policy to the letter.
>
>Please let me know if you prefer me to act differently.
>
>Regards,

I think this is a good idea and a rather thankless job. Maintenance
things like this always need to be done. Thank you!

-- 
Best regards,

Brian T

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Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2021-08-14 04:30 +0200
  Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in  Maintainer/Uploaders Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2021-08-14 15:50 +0200
    Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in  Maintainer/Uploaders stefanor@debian.org - 2021-08-14 15:50 +0200
    Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in  Maintainer/Uploaders Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2021-08-14 22:00 +0200
  Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in  Maintainer/Uploaders Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-15 00:40 +0200
  Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in  Maintainer/Uploaders Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2021-08-15 20:20 +0200
  Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2021-08-24 06:20 +0200

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