Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Brian Thompson Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sat Aug 14 22:35:01 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-12 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, PGPSIGNATURE=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5338q1+9oY1RHvjiB7Eh4i+4a69HyKbjOBiXimHTxj7g9ABMrVmD zwovXe7cbc3eIoSkWbXXsU01t3tW+c9nlyUc X-Google-SMTP-Source: ABdhPJw9I21Hmxcn13VyGGQ3KPE3t4MijvyzGYAWe6WPmyKkIXaVByX1Mr5/hg/r/pZXqlY41gQ6tw== X-Received: by 2002:a5e:974b:: with SMTP id h11mr7121918ioq.135.1628980484860; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:34:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: Brian Thompson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ" Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19265 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20210814223443.GC9010@brians-ubuntu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 66 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 17:34:43 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <20210814223443.GC9010@brians-ubuntu> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13473 --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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Alioth is no longer maintained (or at the very least, our 2 mailing 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! --=20 Best regards, Brian T --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEE9fpVo96/flopdKOfgw2Ncu3Nhn0FAmEYRQMACgkQgw2Ncu3N hn2yuw/+PipcnfE72AesCAS5IiAYmwwLxISZgQFklFfjXt8myZpOQNT+RCM0hLBT vs5w9wzP3ZC07LKjDltcg2h6JGfalfrc+NMRJFPoNFqPfTuy9qlmn8p1V2/2Nlsa RYXrVcrqkljeLjnubA3hEWkM1w/ThtyALo0umf79+R9QOdfcmzXVxmUeHwayGvMN lY/TgfmPIaol8gaq6+0CPaz8bEKPWJu16IWez/4Atx1R8BCviGDRkZPiA8OQr5sg pfHvxbAv81M573FzcoGClLRbuqB9aCeR97i0T1xHZcuLvgq2PRe1mYx8b+54JVaQ WQcBePpXKQ4nfQuM7E5PGi2Dsj53CMc+Qz330Sjv17PGzNvFsVk/P9NpB7r3CiWF 6R6s91SNe1r6XvKcsg/2F1WMuyKiR2ZTtx2ozKiO7LYf8Z06Y3C0brppsoJd6we/ uaE5jWx1gDJCmyYfyXDKXCe1xga7XebMtwlLAEc3OJWWnEWw0JKpKfajF4jt3cJH vzfz72leVp4zKdnFEhHdSlDThFChpctNBIltHXroAQU1c1++AxZ8vxrVqHERiNla QAxzYNN9VVyyRXocuYaiNnPrNPDCJQSGi+6dsYLanohXpeOcJTtkZpz5EZWdQJJa 0uUUw3s6Xiq/gbKgLO/dxdiqfTI6FPtrKROgy6XivZVLaa4X0Mw= =wk1D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ--