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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2018-01-03 00:49:35 -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> 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?

I understand that would more closely mirror what we've had on alioth,
but i'm not convinced it's necessary.

The advantage of not adding/maintaining a separate group is twofold:

 0) simplicity for us -- no maintenance for us, as the set of debian
    developers will already be maintained accurately in salsa itself.

 1) simplicity for others -- many packages will be in the "debian"
    project group already.  For people looking for code, or looking to
    do research, or wanting to make a small contribution, the more our
    setup is like other packages, the easier it is to encourage external
    participation.

What would we gain from having a gnupg-team group?

( my thinking on this stuff is influenced by discussions like
  https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/ending_the_tyranny_of_unix_permissions/
  )

> Also is write access for all debian developers really the right
> permission to grant?

If there is a DD who wants to contribute to the debian packaging for
GnuPG, i can't imagine wanting to discourage them :)

And if someone who is not a DD wants to contribute, they can come chat
with us on whatever our replacement mailing list is, and we can grant
permissions explicitly.

I'm open to doing things differently if you feel strongly about it, but
i'd definitely like to understand the reasons for doing so.

>> 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?

see https://bugs.debian.org/876144  :(  Alexander Wirt suggests that the
listmasters do not want to maintain such a list :/

Sounds like Werner is up for hosting debian at gnupg.org.  shall we take
him up on that?

            --dkg
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