Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:31:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog > wrote: > >The only thing we are waiting currently > >for is a lintian upload where #871575 [3] is fixed (and then we need the > >backport to be installed on ftp-master). > > #871575 was fixed a mon

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/18/2017 11:26 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:53:43PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: >>> I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar >>> with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on >>> this which I hope would be enou

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:31:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >The only thing we are waiting currently >for is a lintian upload where #871575 [3] is fixed (and then we need the >backport to be installed on ftp-master). #871575 was fixed a month ago. Is there any status on ftp-master having the new v

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 06:20:24PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Could anybody provide VMs as a service to a group of DDs? > > Several companies provide hosting for Debian services: > > https://wiki.debian.org/ServicesHosting#Outside_the_Debian_infrastructure My point was: I was supporte

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 12:04 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Could anybody provide VMs as a service to a group of DDs? Several companies provide hosting for Debian services: https://wiki.debian.org/ServicesHosting#Outside_the_Debian_infrastructure -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:45:32AM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Mike Gabriel schrieb am Tuesday, dem 10. October 2017: > > > So, indeed the > > question is, why DSA cannot provide a VM or physical machine to a group of > > DDs and trust th

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
Mike Gabriel schrieb am Tuesday, dem 10. October 2017: > So, indeed the > question is, why DSA cannot provide a VM or physical machine to a group of > DDs and trust this group regarding the server maintenance? DSA is not in the business of p

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-10-10 Thread Mike Gabriel
On Mo 18 Sep 2017 13:34:49 CEST, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a place to discuss issues relatin

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 07:57:29AM +0200, Alex Muntada wrote: > Noah Meyerhans: > > > Maybe we could create a mailing list to coordinate this effort. > > There's alioth-staff-replacement@list.a.d.o that may already fit > that purpose. Thanks for pointing this out. I've joined and will post a sum

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 05:38:55PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > The maintainer e-mail address is listed not only on packages.debian.org > but also on "dpkg -s ..." et. al. Users send support e-mail there. Imho > either the mailing lists need to run a lot longer (possibly until > stretch

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. But for this we > > need a lintian upload and a lintian backport to be installed on > > ftp-master: > > Er, that would create a mail loop. @packages.debian.org > redirects to the data of the maintainer

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Alex Muntada
Noah Meyerhans: > Maybe we could create a mailing list to coordinate this effort. There's alioth-staff-replacement@list.a.d.o that may already fit that purpose. Cheers, Alex [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/alioth-staff-replacement signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > >> with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on > >> this which I hope would be enough time to develop and implement a migration > >

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:35:03AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > the other big challenge is to provide something that lasts "forever". I > > trust > > DSA with that > > Which is ironic, since the service is being dropped while the addresses are > sti

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:35:03AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: the other big challenge is to provide something that lasts "forever". I trust DSA with that Which is ironic, since the service is being dropped while the addresses are still being published. Mike Stone

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 02:55:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > > > that,

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Santiago R.R
El 19/09/17 a las 15:16, Wouter Verhelst escribió: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 02:55:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello Axel, > > > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > > >

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 02:55:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello Axel, > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well s

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Not doing something "central" just because it won't be perfect, or not > supported by DSA, will not prevent things from happening, it will just > force them to happen in a distributed, uncoordinated way, wasting way > more resources for

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:35:03 +, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> How high are the requirements (CPU-, Memory) wise? I guess that one of >> those 5 Euros a month VPSses with 50 Gig Disk and 8 GB RAM would not >> be enough? >[...] >> I don't se

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:26:54PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:53:43PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > > > with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on > > > this wh

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > How high are the requirements (CPU-, Memory) wise? I guess that one of > > those 5 Euros a month VPSses with 50 Gig Disk and 8 GB RAM would not > > be enough? > [...] > > I don't see running

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:42:20 +0200, Martin Steigerwald > wrote: > >Would it be possible with reasonable effort to synchronize spam filtering > >configuration from lists.debian.org to that potential new mailing list > >server? > > The problem is that lis

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > How high are the requirements (CPU-, Memory) wise? I guess that one of > those 5 Euros a month VPSses with 50 Gig Disk and 8 GB RAM would not > be enough? [...] > I don't see running the Mailing list server the biggest challenge. > Provi

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:42:20 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >Would it be possible with reasonable effort to synchronize spam filtering >configuration from lists.debian.org to that potential new mailing list server? The problem is that lists.debian.org doesn't run Mailman. Grüße Marc -- -

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Alexander Wirt - 19.09.17, 10:17: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:53:43 +0200, Alexander Wirt > > > > wrote: > > >On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > >> I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly > > >> familiar > > >> with

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:53:43 +0200, Alexander Wirt > wrote: > >On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > >> I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > >> with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:53:43 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: >On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: >> I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar >> with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on >> this which I hope would be enough time

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Would any of those solutions also email the uploaders or recent people > in d/changelog? This would be helpful for NMU as well as for > team-maintained packages in a large team. No, not yet. But in both cases, it's a matter of adding code to the pa

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:53:43PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > > with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on > > this which I hope would be enough time to develop and implement a migration >

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need > > > a place to discuss issues relating

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 septembre 2017 14:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog  : > Hum, that documentation is a bit outdated. What you have to use is > actually dispatch+@tracker.debian.org. But I would not want > people to use this email address in Maintainer fields. > > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. But for t

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Alex Muntada
Dominic Hargreaves: > I am willing to step up to help keep lists.alioth.debian.org running > as a standalone service using mailman. It seems like it is yet to be > resolved whether this is a long-term strategic option, but this > thread demonstrates the many practical reason that we should aim to

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Paul Wise wrote: > If the Maintainer field is going to be completely deterministic based > on the package name, we should probably just change dak/BTS/etc to > mail those addresses instead of making dak put those addresses in > Maintainer fields in Sources/Packages or upda

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. If the Maintainer field is going to be completely deterministic based on the package name, we should probably just change dak/BTS/etc to mail those addresses instead of making dak put those addre

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Axel, On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. > >

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a > > place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do not > > relate t

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Alexander Wirt wrote: > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. Reading https://tracker.debian.org/docs/about.html#email-int

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a > place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do not > relate to any one particular package. Contributers should be able to > self-or

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-17 Thread peter green
On 17/09/17 10:38, Alexander Wirt wrote: If you currently manage a user-support or discussion list, or run one of the big teams Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need a place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do not relate to any

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. For > larger teams, such as

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2017-09-17 Alexander Wirt wrote: [...] > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. For > larger teams, such as the Debian P

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-17 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Alexander Wirt wrote: > As the Alioth system is not something that we as a project have the will > and manpower to maintain in its current form, we held a sprint [sprint] > last month in Hamburg, Germany, and discussed options and the future of > the several services currently provided by Alioth.

Follow-up: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-17 Thread Alex Muntada
Alexander Wirt: > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. For > larger teams, such as the Debian Perl Group, a list on lists.debian.