[Pkg-octave-devel] DOG group @ salsa.d.o

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-12-26 22:51]:

> I think so. Note that according to the following page, the right address is 
> dispatch+${pkg}_vcs at tracker.debian.org:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc#Email_notifications

Ok, I changed the settings in salsa.d.o accordingly.

BTW, I was not aware of the vcs suffix (or keyword, in the tracker.d.o. 
terminology).  It is hard to find documentation about it, without digging 
into the distro-tracker sources. Some clues can also be obtained by 
asking the mailbot control at tracker.debian.org for help.

My understanding of the way tracker.d.o works is the following: when a 
user subscribes to the pkg-octave team [1], then all mail related to the 
67 team source packages will be forwarded to the said user.  This means 
that all keywords will be active, including _vcs.  If the user needs 
fine-grained control, then she must use the mailbot.

Is my mental model correct?

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-octave/

>> Also, it is recommended to use $pkg at packages.debian.org as the value of the 
>> Maintainer field.  Should we adopt this?
>
> I think this is a bad idea, because it breaks the assumption that all packages 
> maintained by a team share the same email address (and therefore many tools 
> that list team-maintained packages no longer work as expected).
>
> The discussion is currently going on about this very issue on debian-devel at . It 
> looks like it may be possible to use our new list (debian-octave at lists.d.o) in 
> the Maintainer field. An alternative could be to use a new concept of team 
> address on tracker.d.o.
>
> I suggest to wait a little bit until the dust settles.

The dust does not seem to be settled yet.  At any rate, is seems that 
using debian-octave at lists.d.o as the value of the Maintainer field will 
have the undesirable side effect of getting BTS-related and other bulk 
mail sent to the mailing list on lists.d.o.  Somehow, tracker.d.o can 
take care of this (for instance, with the address 
dispatch+${pkg}_bts at tracker.d.o).  Is there a way to tell bugs.d.o to not 
send messages to the maintainer?

Rafael