From plessy at debian.org  Sun Jan  7 06:56:56 2018
From: plessy at debian.org (Charles Plessy)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 15:56:56 +0900
Subject: [dep-plumbing] Migration of https://alioth.debian.org/projects/dep/
Message-ID: <20180107065656.ijm7coz2zebhfhgu@bubu.plessy.net>

Hello everybody,

I have been very silent about the DEPs in the past years, partly because
of my incapacity to make the ikiwiki integration work again after the
last big restructuration of Alioth.

But now there is an opportunity for a change :)

 * First, about the mailing lists.

For dep-plumbing (this list), I can ask the creation of a replacement on
lists.debian.org.  But perhaps the low traffic suggests that we can use
debian-project directly instead ?

For dep-commits... do we really need it ?  If we have DEP 0 as a Git
repository on salsa.d.o, people can follow the changes with the RSS feed
or by asking to be added to the email-on-push service.

 * Second, about the Subversion repository.

I propose to create a team on salsa.d.o ("dep-team" ? "debian-dep" ?),
make the "Debian" group member of that team, with enough rights for
creating new projects.

Then, I propose to export each DEP that is currently in the Subversion
repository as a specific project.  Hopefully none of them used features
specific from ikiwiki, so they can be rendered as GitLab pages.

Then, we would point dep.debian.net to redirect to something like
dep.pages.debian.net/dep-team/deps.

What do you think about this ?

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


From zack at debian.org  Sun Jan  7 07:26:46 2018
From: zack at debian.org (Stefano Zacchiroli)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 08:26:46 +0100
Subject: [dep-plumbing] Migration of
 https://alioth.debian.org/projects/dep/
In-Reply-To: <20180107065656.ijm7coz2zebhfhgu@bubu.plessy.net>
References: <20180107065656.ijm7coz2zebhfhgu@bubu.plessy.net>
Message-ID: <20180107072646.GA28339@upsilon.cc>

Hi Charles, I haven't been very active either on DEP, and I don't see
this changing in the future, but here are my 0.02 EUR in response to
your useful message:

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 03:56:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> For dep-plumbing (this list), I can ask the creation of a replacement on
> lists.debian.org.  But perhaps the low traffic suggests that we can use
> debian-project directly instead ?

I think so, -project should be good enough. And dep-commits can
certainly go.

> I propose to create a team on salsa.d.o ("dep-team" ? "debian-dep" ?),
> make the "Debian" group member of that team, with enough rights for
> creating new projects.
> 
> Then, I propose to export each DEP that is currently in the Subversion
> repository as a specific project.  Hopefully none of them used features
> specific from ikiwiki, so they can be rendered as GitLab pages.

That seems a bit overkill to me. I think a single project for all DEPs
should be enough, and let's make it writable by all DDs. In this
scenario dep.d.n can point to that project.

HTH,
Cheers.
-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli . zack at upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o
Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o
Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director  . . . o o o . . . o .
? the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club ?