Hi, Am Montag, den 06.06.2011, 09:18 +0200 schrieb Sven Hoexter: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:17:03AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 20:56:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The majority of published references to VCS repositories are URLs for > > > anonymous access. Also regular Alioth users will be more aware of the > > > Alioth reconfiguration than others, and will know that they need to > > > change the read-write/push URLs. Therefore I think it is more important > > > that the URLs for anonymous access continue to work. > > > > I concur. In addition there's way less committers (with their respective > > clones, chekouts, etc) than current anonymous cloned trees. > > In general I'd agree but I think it's too late now to switch back. I for one > already started to change Vcs-* fields, fix checkouts etc. where needed. > Other people did so aswell. My guess is that we're in the middle of this nice > epic chaos and switching back now would make it even worse. > On the other hand there are all these packages in stable with broken Vcs > fields now. Still not nice but assuming that most contributions will be > based on what's in unstable that might be bearable.
if there is consensus to switch back for anonymous access, then it should be doable to also support the anonvcs-links, so that your modified checkout keeps working. I for one am going to wait for this to settle completely before even thinking about changing the VCS fields in all my and my team’s packages... Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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