[pkg-gnupg-maint] moving repos from alioth to salsa.debian.org

[Eric Dorland]

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net) wrote:
> hey GnuPG debian folks--
> 
> With the impending demise of Alioth, and the offering of the gitlab
> instance at https://salsa.debian.org/, we need to move the git
> repositories and the mailing list, and perhaps we need to consider how
> to identify the team on new package releases.
> 
> Git Repositories
> ----------------
> 
> I'm proposing to create the git repositories within the salsa "Debian"
> group.
> 
> This means i plan to move the following git repositories:
> 
>  * gpgme
>  * gnupg2
>  * gnupg1
>  * libassuan
>  * libgpg-error
>  * gpa
>  * pinentry
> 
> All existing debian developers will have read/write access to these
> repos.  (and everyone in the world will have read access of course) If
> you're working on debian packaging for any of these projects, and you
> want read/write access, please let me or any other pkg-gnupg-maint DD
> know, and we'll make sure you get it.

Maybe I don't understand the gitlab model but don't we want to create
a gnupg-team group and then perhaps add all Debian developers to that?
Also is write access for all debian developers really the right
permission to grant?

> note that this means dropping the old/unmaintained gnupg-doc.git
> repository, as well as the no-longer relevant dirmngr.git repo (dirmngr
> was merged into gnupg before the current stable release was published).
> 
> Mailing Lists
> -------------
> 
> I remain unsure what to do about this, because we don't seem to have a
> clear option supported by Debian for an ongoing mailing list for
> discussion :(

Can we not create a regular lists.debian.org list?

> In previous discussion, Werner expressed a desire to not use upstream's
> gnupg-devel at gnupg.org mailing list for debian-specific packaging
> discussion.
> 
> Werner, perhaps you'd be willing to add a new debian at gnupg.org mailman
> instance for this work?  I'd be willing to manage that mailing list, if
> you could set it up.
> 
> That would give us a place to have this discussion, a permanent archive,
> and it would help answer the final question:
> 
> 
> Identifying team-maintained packages
> ------------------------------------
> 
> What e-mail address should we use to identify the packages as
> team-maintained?  Currently, all the packages show:
> 
>     Maintainer: Debian GnuPG-Maintainers <pkg-gnupg-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 
> If we switch to a new mailing list, we can replace the e-mail address
> with that one.  If the new mailing list isn't an option, i'm sort of at
> a loss for what we should put here as a team.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
>         --dkg



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