[Pkg-javascript-devel] alioth is down: what to do with those 119 packages ?

[Paolo Greppi]

Hi as you know, since yesterday alioth is dead.

There's still quite a few packages from the js-team sitting in the
new queue with the vcs* fields in debian/control set to:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/...

To find out which they are, try the "Debian NEW Packages fancy view" at:
http://212.237.56.209/
check the "Only show active packages" checkbox then type this as search string:
"https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/" 

They are 119 ATM.

As mentioned here:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2018-May/026296.html
this work has been planned for a while.

Unfortunately most of the ITP owners failed to even register on salsa, nor have 
we prepared team uploads.
You can track the WIP here:
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/current_itps/boards?label_name[]=NEW-alioth
(BTW, they are 114 there so 5 are missing)

Currently only node-ansicolors and node-classnames are in the RFC (request
for comments) column i.e. almost ready for sponsoring.

My proposal is to ask ftp-master to reject them all.
This is fair to them and will clean up the queue.
After that, we have all the time in the universe to reassign ITPs,
prepare team uploads etc.

Paolo