[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Making me admin on the sysvinit project on Alioth for OpenRC

[Thomas Goirand]

On 01/29/2014 06:15 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Thomas Goirand]
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently, OpenRC is hosted in collab-maint. Though this is becoming
>> problematic because I can't give access rights to the new
>> contributors.
>>
>> So I would like to put OpenRC in the same Alioth group as
>> sysvinit. This IMO makes a lot of sense.
>>
>> However, I would need to become admin on the project. Can one of you
>> grant me the admin rights for it? (I'm already member of this project)
> 
> While I believe it is a good idea to cooperate more, I am reluctant to
> do this.  If I understand the consequence, it would be that committers
> you grant access to openrc would also get access to sysvinit, startpar
> and insserv, without the approval of any of the current pkg-sysvinit
> admins.

Hi Petter,

Thanks for your reply.

That's ok, I don't think I need admin rights anymore, since I have
created a new OpenRC project on Alioth. And the people who contributes
to it have already joined. :)

> Please bring it up on the pkg-sysvinit-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> mailing list, to give everyone a chance to chime in.

If you didn't notice, I added this list as Cc: to this mail.

> Given the lack of manpower available to maintain sysvinit I am not
> completely against granting more people commit rights.  Perhaps it is OK
> with you to keep openrc source in the pkg-sysvinit alioth group and
> repo, while the current admins grant access on request?  We are not
> unreasonable, nor normally very slow responders, when everyone is around
> and not vacating. :)

I very much would like to see this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721917

fixed asap. This would help Hurd guys, and help us on OpenRC to show
everyone that we have a good solution for non-linux ports. This has
already been tested and working, we would very much love to see it
directly supported by the package.

What's holding applying the patches of #721917? Would it be ok if I
apply the patches, and NMU sysvinit in Debian experimental with them?

> I notice though there should be some cleaning in the project member and
> admin list.  Miquel and Herique is not very active these days, while
> Roger is.  This is part of the reason I believe we should discuss this
> on the mailing list and not only among the admins.

Ok.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)