Migrating to salsa

Rafael Laboissière rafael at debian.org
Tue Mar 13 07:12:46 UTC 2018


Any reaction on the plan that I outlined below?

Rafael

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> [2018-03-04 09:57]:

> * Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> [2018-03-03 17:52]:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 08:31:47AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>>>
>>> Another issue that should be addressed is related to the 
>>> deprecated mailing lists on Alioth.  For now, we are using 
>>> autopkgtest-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org as both the value of the 
>>> Maintainer field of the packages and a place for development 
>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> You might request the creation of new mailing at lists.d.o, e.g. 
>>> debian-ci at lists.debian.org, for using as a discussion medium.  It 
>>> is possible to migrate the archives and the list of subscribers 
>>> form Alioth into lists.d.o.
>>>
>>> In order to avoid the noise on the new mailing list from different 
>>> services (Debian FTP Masters, Debian testing watch, 
>>> debian-devel-changes, etc) that send messages automatically, we 
>>> could use another value for the Maintainer field of the packages. 
>>> One possible solution is to use the Debian PTS.
>>>
>>> We could create a team, say "debian-ci", at tracker.d.o and add 
>>> all packages (autodep8, debci, debian-ci-config, and autopkgtest 
>>> to it. After that, the Maintainer field can be changed to "Debian 
>>> CI Team <team+debian-ci at tracker.debian.org>".  People interested 
>>> in receiving email messages sent to that address can subscribe to 
>>> the group at tracker.d.o. Notice that the user can choose the 
>>> level of granularity they want to have, by managing their 
>>> subscription keywords (bts, build, upload-source, etc). [*]
>>
>> All the above suggestions seem great to me. Would you be willing 
>> help with their implementation?
>>
>> (I just gave owner access to the team on salsa)
>
> I have noticed that I have Owner access, thanks.  We could share the 
> tasks :
>
> 1) Ask the admins at lists.d.o to create a new mailing list for 
> discussions around CI.  The archives and the list of subscribers of 
> autopkgtest-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org should be migrated into this 
> new mailing list.  Could you take care of this, please?
>
> 2) Create a group at the Debian PTS.  I can take care of this.  Which 
> name would be appropriate? "debian-ci", "ci-team" or simply "ci"?
>
> 3) Change the value of the the Maintainer field in debian/control for 
> the three Debian packages (autodep8, autopkgtest, and debci) according 
> to the name chosen in step 2.
>
> 4) Change the Vcs-* fields in the debian/control files to the Salsa 
> ones.  Note that I already filed a merge request for AliothWriter: 
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter/merge_requests/217
>
> 5) Set the tagpending webhook for the Debian three packages on Salsa. 
> This is easy to do and I could do it.  Should I?
>
>>> Furthermore, we might activate the "Emails on push" integration 
>>> service for the repositories in Salsa.  Again, the PTS can be 
>>> handy here, because we can use the addresses 
>>> dispatch+${pkg}_vcs at tracker.debian.org.  Users interested in 
>>> receiving commit notifications can subscribe to the "vcs" keyword 
>>> at the PTS.
>>
>> I'm not so sure about this one. you can already watch individual 
>> repositories on salsa em be notified about all activity on them, so 
>> I don't see the point.
>
> Are pushes notified when watching Salsa repositories?  I thought that 
> the only way to do it was by using the "Emails on push" integration 
> service.  How do you do it otherwise?
>
> Rafael
>
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