[lockdev-devel] lockdev development: upstream hosting update

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:35:11PM +0100, Paweł Więcek wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 17:53 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I've found time over the new year to set up a project on Alioth
> > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/lockdev/
> > to create an official "upstream" project with mailing list and
> > VCS repository.
> 
> I'd like to point out that lockdev is hosted on hg.svartech.com for
> almost two years and I don't see a oint in changing this.

This is the first time I've known about this.

Alioth does allow for the easy addition of project members with direct
commit access to the repository, as well as facilities for release
distribution and bug tracking outside of the Debian infrastructure.
And it's on a system which has ongoing support, regular backups and
maintenance, hosting several hundreds of other projects.  What sort
of policies does this site have, and is it kept backed up and have
admins responsive to maintenance and user admin requests?

Looking at the repo on this site, there has been no work in it
following the initial imports, and it's not separating the upstream
and debian history.  Playing devil's advocate here: is there any
reason to keep it, given that it has had no use?

I've put a sample git import at

  git://git.debian.org/git/lockdev/lockdev

(ssh+git://git.debian.org/git/lockdev/lockdev if you have write access.)
This has a slightly more complete history (0.9a added), and it also
puts upstream and debian changes on different branches with all the
correct branch and merge points.


As the current maintainer, are you OK with the creation of this project
for intra-distribution maintenance of lockdev, and are you planning to
continue lockdev maintenance?  Apologies for asking this, but the last
two uploads were NMUs, and db.debian.org reports no activity from you
since last February.  I would have greatly appreciated your input when
this thread started in November; I'm sorry if I've overstepped my
bounds as a co-maintainer, but without any reply from yourself I
couldn't just sit back and do nothing!

BTW, I see you are already on alioth as "coven".  Could you add
yourself to the alioth lockdev project, and I'll set you up as an
admin.


Regards,
Roger

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