Fwd: Re: [Pkg-postgresql-private] PostgreSQL co-maintenance

[Oliver Elphick]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:30, Martin Pit21
> Hi Oliver!
> 
> One problem chases the other... I sent the mail below over an hour ago
> and it didn't come through yet (I also didn't bounce).

> Thus, I cannot checkout the CVS (see below), the ML is not working for
> me... I'm not sure whether I'm the one who messed up something, but if
> so, I would appreciate any help.
...

It's not letting me in either.  Something seems to have happened to sshd
on Alioth.

> On 2003-10-13 18:34 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > The version I'm actively working on is 7.4beta4, currently in
> > experimental as 7.3.99.7.4beta4-3. 
> 
> Will you upload this into unstable eventually or do you wait for the
> final 7.4?  Any chance that 7.4 makes it into sarge, i. e. does
> upstream estimate when the final version will be ready? 
> 
> I'm asking because if sarge will contain the current unstable version,
> then bugs should certainly be fixed there as well.

The first release candidate of 7.4 should be very soon.  I would expect
the final version within a month and there's not even a whisper of a
freeze on sarge yet.

> > What I would like would be to get a lot of the bug list cleared.  If
> > anyone intends to tackle a bug, please announce it here.  Perhaps we
> > should copy bugs to the Alioth tracker system, to make it easy to see
> > who is dealing with what.  It would be a good idea to send a message to
> > xxx-maintonly@bugs.debian.org as well so that there is a record on bug
> > xxx to say that it is in the system.
> 
> IMHO managing a second BTS in alioth is error-prone and much
> overhead.

Maybe it would be enough to log the bug number and title in Alioth's
BTS; it seems to me that Alioth's BTS is more flexible for multiple
maintainers.  The _only_ facility the Debian BTS offers is the
capability of setting the owner; the bug tags are preset and we cannot
add new ones.  Alioth's tracking gives us the ability to categorise bugs
according to our needs, to set priorites and so on.

>  What about using the "owner" tag for stating that someone
> wants to take care of a bug

That would be sensible

>  and a second tag when the bug is fixed in
> alioth? I'm not sure which tag should be used for the latter; patch
> would match best, although it is quite an abuse... Maybe we could
> use "fixed-upstream"?

But fixed-upstream can only be for bugs fixed by the upstream package. 
I don't think it should be used for this.

>  Using tags in the BTS would greatly help to get
> a better overview over the bugs.

You are probably correct, but that is only good within the preset
categories of the BTS.



> I will checkout the current version and look into its guts now. I will
> certainly start to fix some easy bugs, to get warm first.
> 
> Can you give me some hints how to do the checkout?
> 
> I did:
> ---------------- snip ------------------
> martin@donald:~/src/Debian/pg$ export CVS_RSH=ssh
> martin@donald:~/src/Debian/pg$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:mpitt-guest@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pkg-postgresql co 7.4

That should have worked.  I guess we can't do anything until ssh service
is restored.

I have emailed admin@alioth.debian.org to report the problem.

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