Re: Membership of the debian-gis-team on Salsa (Was: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta)
Mine is created as well,
johanvdw-guest
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
> Just created my account too: kalxas-guest
>
> Happy New Year!
>
>
> On 12/25/2017 02:26 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that the GitLab instance that is going to replace Alioth has entered
>> beta, it was a good time to create the Debian GIS Project team there:
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/groups/debian-gis-team
>>
>> It is also a good time to reduce the list of inactive members, so I
>> don't plan on adding all the members from Alioth.
>>
>> For all non-DDs, please register an account on Salsa as documented in
>> the forwarded annoucement, and reply to this thread to request
>> membership of the debian-gis-team on Salsa. All DDs already have an
>> account and only need to request membership of the team.
>>
>> It doesn't seem possible to give all DDs access to the repository like
>> on Alioth, so we'll have to grant membership to individual users.
>>
>> I don't know yet when I'll start migrating the git repositories from
>> Alioth to Salsa. At the latest when Alioth is switched to read-only.
>>
>> If you want to keep contributing to packages maintained by the Debian
>> GIS team, have a look at Salsa and request membership of the team.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta
>> Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:46:04 +0000 (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
>> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:45:37 +0100
>> From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>
>> To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
>>
>> Hi,
>> Since summer we have worked on our git.debian.org replacement based
>> on GitLab. I am really happy to say that we are launching the beta of
>> our service
>> today. Please keep in mind that it is a beta, we don't expect any database
>> resets, but under unexpected circumstances it might still happen.
>>
>> The new service is available at https://salsa.debian.org. Every active
>> Debian
>> Developer already has an account. Please request a password reset via
>> https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in -- your login is either your
>> Debian login or Debian e-mail address. SSH Keys from udldap get synced
>> into your account.
>>
>> Guest users
>> -----------
>>
>> External users are invited to create an account on salsa. To avoid
>> clashes with
>> future Debian Developers, we are enforcing a '-guest' suffix for any
>> guest username.
>> Therefore we developed a self-service portal which allows non-Debian
>> Developers to sign up,
>> available at https://signup.salsa.debian.org.
>> Please keep in mind that your username will have '-guest' appended.
>>
>> Project creation
>> ----------------
>>
>> Every user can create projects in their own namespace (similar to GitHub).
>>
>> Teams
>> -----
>>
>> For larger projects you can also create a group to host your projects.
>> To avoid clashes with usernames (that share the same namespace as
>> groups) we are requiring
>> groups to have a '-team' suffix to their name.
>> Groups can be created using the same self-service portal
>> https://signup.salsa.debian.org.
>> For larger, already-established teams it is also possible to ask us to
>> create the group with a
>> name not conforming to the normal team namespace. Examples are teams
>> like *debian-qa*. Please create an issue in the support[1] project.
>>
>> Collab-maint
>> ------------
>>
>> If you want to allow other Debian Developers to work on your packages or
>> software, you can create projects within the
>> **Debian** group. Every Debian Developer has write access to projects
>> created in this group.
>> If you create a project within the Debian group, you are implicitly
>> welcoming all DDs to contribute directly to the project.
>>
>> Guest users can only be added to individual projects with the Debian
>> group, but not to the entire Debian group. This is different to the
>> policy for the collab-maint group on Alioth.
>>
>> GitLab runners
>> --------------
>>
>> We won't provide any shared Gitlab runners for now. If you want to
>> sponsor resources for such runners please contact us.
>>
>>
>> Gitlab pages
>> ------------
>>
>> We will support Gitlab pages in the future, but more work is needed
>> first. We will post an update when they
>> are ready.
>>
>> Migration of repositories
>> -------------------------
>>
>> We don't plan to do any automatic migration of alioth repositories. If
>> you use a repository and think it is important (!) migrate it on your
>> own. We will provide a read-only export of all repositories that weren't
>> exported after disabling alioth.
>>
>> Timeline
>> --------
>>
>> We want to run this beta at least for four weeks. If everything goes
>> well we intend to leave beta around the end of January.
>>
>> Documentation
>> -------------
>>
>> Documentation of the service will happen in the Debian Wiki [2]. Please
>> feel free to enhance the documentation.
>> See also the upstream GitLab docs [3].
>>
>> Getting help
>> ------------
>>
>> If you have problems with the service you can reach us:
>> - IRC: #alioth@irc.debian.org
>> - Mailing list:
>> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/alioth-staff-replacement
>> - Issue tracker: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues
>> Don't expect us to be responsive during the holidays, so be patient :).
>>
>>
>> Request for help
>> ----------------
>>
>> If you want to take part in salsa administration please get in touch
>> with us. We want to have at least two more administrators
>> for the Gitlab instance.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your attention
>>
>> Alex on behalf of the salsa team
>>
>> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support
>> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc
>> [3] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/README.html
>>
>>
>
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