(Moving this to -project and CCing you, as I doubt your subscribed there) On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 2. The proposed implementation for non-free.org. > > > > Basically, there are two possibilities, a) using a GForge service and b) > > reproducing the debian.org services, but in a less complex way, where > > possible. > > I would vote for b), since it would cause the less difference of use > over the current system.
This indeed seems to be the more realistical approach right now. > > B. Reproducing the debian.org services. What is mostly needed are the > > Debian archive itself, the BTS, mailing-lists and the PTS. > > > > a) The archive. This has been taken care of already, as Daniel Stone's > > box already features a katie installation. > > No mirror though, what about backups ? There's no need to worry about mirrors if you haven't even started with the basics yet. I'm quite confident that we'll find a couple of mirrors, though. After all, quite some debian mirrors carry non-free, to my knowledge. Nevertheless, if interested people with mirroring capacities are reading this, please let me know. > Not everyone has personal backups, and i at least somewhat was relying > on the archive to store the packages, especially at times of limited > disk space (like when trying to build X :). Let's just hope that we don't move X to non-free, ok? ;) That said, we could need some more storage. If anybody living near Melbourne could donate harddisks, this would be higly appreciated. > > c) The Package Tracking System. I talked to Raphael Hertzog about this > > a while ago. The code for the PTS is available and he told me that > > it should be possible to adopt it for something like non-free.org > > within an acceptable time frame. I'm not quite sure how hard it will > > be to transfer the current subscribers to non-free packages. > > Still, no more single per maintainer page where both non-free, contrib > and main packages are visible, i guess :( 'Wo gehobelt wird, da fallen Spaene'. Means, if you do bold moves, you'll suffer some rather small losses. I am sorry about this, of course. > BTW, what about contrib ? Will it move to non-free or stay in debian ? I don't have a big opinion on this. > > One problem with the transition that has been identified is the > > reassignment of bugs from non-free packages back to main packages. The > > easy solution here would be to just open a new bug on the main package, > > with the full bug log from non-free.org attached. Maybe a better > > solution can be hashed out in the future, if this case proves to be > > quite common. > > Ok. I don't think this is only a transition problem though, but will > also be felt later on. We're desperatly trying to get real figures here. I'll post them once they are available. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html
