What to do for new packages

[Felipe Sateler]

El 18/12/08 14:24 Free Ekanayaka escribió:
> |--==> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:55:20 -0300, Felipe Sateler 
<fsateler at gmail.com> said:
>   >>* commit messages are copied to both pkg-multimedia-commits@ and the
>   >>PTS for the relevant package. The former results then in a very busy
>   >>mailing list but if one is interested only in a specifc package he
>   >>can just subscribe to the PTS.
>
>   FS> I just setup this, and I have a problem: the list is members only.
> I'm not FS> sure how to deal with this, since I don't think most people
> will want to FS> suscribe to the commits list. Specially sporadic
> contributors. We should FS> either whitelist mail sent from alioth (is this
> possible?), allow non-members FS> posts, or don't send mail there at all.
>
> If possible I would go for whitelist-ing mail sent from alioth,
> mailman should support it, check Privacy Options -> Sender filters
> in the list's administrative interface.

I worked around this by making the script send the mail from the 
users.alioth.debian.org address of the pusher instead of the committer's 
address.
So, when creating the repository, use the setup-repository script that will 
take care of this.

BTW, Free, I added you to the project. Welcome :)

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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