[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Migrating away from alioth

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Thu, January 4, 2018 21:49, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> I created a salsa team for mailman, under the name mailman-team. I added
> you to the team with owner access.
>
> Please, add anyone you want to this team. :)

Thanks! I've migrated the mailman svn repo to git and pushed it to salsa.
I'll work on a new upload soon. I've chosen the repo name "mailman2" which
I think is more clear in the new constellation than just "mailman".

> I'll clone all mailman3 packages into salsa but before changing the VCS
> field for mailman3 packages, I'll wait until salsa ends properly its beta.
> Maybe you should do the same for mailman?

I'm changing it right now. Going from the usage and the d-d-a posts I have
high confidence that this service is going to be it. Also, I trust this
"beta" more than current Alioth, which is effectively unmaintained for a
long while now.

The suggestion to use mailman at packages.debian.org as replacement for this
mailing list (as maintainer field) will not work, because it only works
when the emails are actually related to the specific source package of
that name. So not for a multi-source-package setup. I propose to stick
with the current list for a while to see what Debian alternatives come up.
If all else fails I can create a list at my employers Mailman instance
that we can use.


Cheers,
Thijs