• Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders

    From Sandro Tosi@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 14 04:30:01 2021
    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    Alioth is no longer maintained (or at the very least, our 2 mailing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,
    --
    Sandro "morph" Tosi
    My website: http://sandrotosi.me/
    Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrotosi

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