Hi Peter,

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:53:21PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Hi Jordi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:18:49AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > This is all good news! I still use fcgiwrap myself so co-maintaining
> > sounds about right (although I'm happy to downgrade myself to Uploader
> > and have you as the main Maintainer if you want).
> 
> Great! I would be fine either way, but Maintainer might be better for
> the sake of hinting (when the time comes) that I am ready to become DD.
> 
> > Also happy about svn → git, it's something that's been on the list for
> > all of my packages but I've never come around to it.
> 
> Please take a close look at the carefully restored history:
> 
> git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/pc-guest/fcgiwrap.git
> 
> I have split the larger svn commits into multiple git commits so that
> each commit corresponds to one changelog entry. I verified that the
> debian/ tags match exactly the versions in snapshot.debian.org.

Woa, you've spent quite a bit doing this right? I can't spot a single
nitpick here. Nice!

> Would you be fine if we generate the changelog using "gbp dch" only
> right before each upload? This keeps the history simple and avoids
> potential merge conflicts in the changelog.

Yeah, that's fine. Whatever, if it's the recommended way in DEP14. As
in this case there's no strong recommendation, I can be convinced to do
gbp dch. I really hope I won't forget, as editing the changelog has been
part of my workflow for 15+ years. :)

> > I can give you the DM upload permissions straight away; I'm very happy
> > about you joining and caring about fcgiwrap!
> 
> Yes, that would be nice.
> 
> Could you also advocate for me to join collab-maint? I sent a request
> myself on alioth, but so far my account (pc-guest) has not been added.

Ok. Any pointer where I should be advocating you?

> That would be my next step after uploading the current version. I will
> see how to best integrate our patches and file pull requests upstream.
> 
> There is an open pull request [1] for a multi-instance systemd unit,
> which would allow running fcgiwrap under multiple users using the same
> systemd template, instead of running everything under www-data. In
> case of a serious bug in one CGI app, this separation prevents the
> hijacking of other CGI apps or the webserver itself.

That sounds useful, yes!

> [1] https://github.com/gnosek/fcgiwrap/pull/17

Jordi

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