On 0813, Sandro Tosi wrote: >Hello, >a long time ago, we decided to stop using Alioth for the team email >address in Maintainer/Uploaders fields, and onovy mass-committed this >change to our repo; several of our packages (736, according to [1]) >are still using Alioth. > >[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/python-teams-merged > >Alioth is no longer maintained (or at the very least, our 2 mailing >lists), and the amount of spam received through it is way too high to >be sustainable. > >After the upcoming release of bullseye, I plan to start uploading all >packages that currently use Alioth to migrate them to Tracker (along >with the other pending changes in the git repos). > >I understand it's possible an upload exists in experimental that fixes >it, so i'll try and check for that; it's also likely that if a package >is still using Alioth, their maintainer is longer interested in the >package, but i dont think now it's the time for a mass purge. I also >understand some of these packages will have the team as Uploaders and, >according to our Policy, i should contact the physical person doing >the upload beforehand, but i think that would slow down this process >and i'm ready to deal with the consequences of not following the >Policy to the letter. > >Please let me know if you prefer me to act differently. > >Regards,
I think this is a good idea and a rather thankless job. Maintenance things like this always need to be done. Thank you! -- Best regards, Brian T
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