pkg-common-lisp.alioth.debian.org is born!

[Luca Capello]

Hi Peter,

I'm sorry for the lag, free time is a mirage, lately...

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:38 +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> I'll start migrating asap.

This is also my intention, at least for the packages I maintain.  Then,
I'll start pinging who already expressed a positive feeling to team
maintenance and helping her/him to migrate.

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:59:26 +0100, "Luca Capello" <luca at pca.it> said:
>> 9) do we need some other Alioth features, like the tracker, news, task
>>    manager or forum?  I prefer to keep as simple as possible:
>
> I got a complaint from a ubuntu user a while ago that he could not find 
> a place to report a clc bug, so maybe having some hints on how to open
> bugs from non-debian systems would be nice to have.

Mmm, this could be a point in favor of the Alioth tracker, but I'm still
skeptical.  Anyway, for sure the team website is missing pieces: the
idea is to provide links or, directly, all the necessary information to
contribute and report bugs or suggestions.

>>    Maybe we should enable the tracker if we want project's problems to
>>    be monitored by other than the Debian BTS [8].  However, about this
>>    issue, I'm in favor of a Debian cl-debian (meta)package, which would
>>    combines this project with a "basic" Common Lisp installation on
>>    Debian.  This is a very new idea, thus it needs a bit more reflexion.
>
> The 'standard' CL would depend on the architecture?

This could be an option, but my first idea was to poll the list users to
know if there's a "major" CL implementation most people use and install
it by default if no others are already installed.  In this way, newbies
have a common background when reporting bugs.  This would also help
developers, e.g. providing a cl-debian-policy package from the same
source one.

Anyway, let's discuss this after the team is completely operative ;-)

>> I'm eager of anyone comments :-)
>
> How and where do we upload the darcs/git/bzr repositories?

Basically, I don't think the website should repeat information already
available in the official Debian wiki: in alphabetical order bzr [1],
darcs [2], git [3] and hg [4].

As I stated before, this needs to be integrate into our website, patches
welcome.  BTW, we should put the website into a VCS, too (no preference
for me).

What I'm still working on is how to have automatic commit mails for the
different VCSs, since the Debian wiki has all the necessary information
for git only [3].  I've a script for darcs (written by Marco Baringer
for the BESE suite [5]), but I haven't completely tuned it to Alioth.
Bzr and hg are still a bit unknown to me, so if people more involved
with them would like to step in...

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Bzr
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Darcs
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git
[4] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Hg
[5] http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/
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