[Alioth-staff-replacement] alioth deprecation - next steps

[Peter Palfrader]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Holger Levsen wrote:

> hi,
> 
> dropping debian-devel@, adding DSA to cc:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:33:09PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > > 17.-20.05.18: During the Mini-DebConf Hamburg any existing cron jobs will be turned off, websites still on alioth will be disabled.
> > > 
> > > we currently use https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/blog/ and this
> > > address has been spread wide and far. Do you think it would be possible
> > > to redirect reproducible.alioth.debian.org on the DNS level to say,
> > > blog.reproducible-builds.org?
> > This is probably possible by talking to DSA. 
> 
> dear DSA, do you also think we could do that? for maybe a year or
> two....

We don't think we should point alioth.d.o things to other places in DNS.

We can, on a case by case basis, provide http 301 redirectors for
specific sites to non-alioth names for a time.  (A year, two, three.
Not, however, for forever.  So there needs to be a clear commitment to
start publishing and using the new name.)

The target of the redirect may also be run with DSA's help on debian.org
infrastructure, or not.  Again, these are case-by-case discussions.

Cheers,
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