[Debtags-devel] Debconf5 news: Debtags in the Packages file and Alioth availability

[Enrico Zini]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:59:00PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:

> > Then, Wickert Akkerman offered to help in moving all the Debtags
> > infrastructure to Alioth.  Erich, we might have been found the place
> > where the central database could run!  I'll talk with Wickert later
> > about more details on how free we can be, but he told me there should be
> > no problems in setting up even daemons if needed.
> That would be very convenient. The machine I have the current database
> on will run until end of the year for sure, but probably not much
> longer.

Ok, let's etch a plan:

1. the main reference storage can be moved to svn right now, and I can
   still download the data from the packagebrowser and bring them in
   manually after safety checks.  This will protect us from accidental
   or malicious changes, and will give us history tracking and backups.

2. then we can move the mail bot to Alioth.  Wiggy is happy about
   setting up aliases for the debtags.alioth.debian.org, and we can use
   one of those.  If the mail bot code in subversion is current, me (or
   I, if you don't have time) can try to go on and make it work.

Do you see any problems?  Should I go on?


> The big remaining issue is the much-needed rewrite of the webUI... :-(

The current interface can stay where it is and still collect and feed
data.  Whenever you're ready for a rewrite, Alioth is at our disposal.
We can have a postgresql repository anytime is needed (no MySQL, though)
and Wiggy is quite open to negotiating more things if needed.


Ciao,

Enrico

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