Debian - pilot-link plucker jpilot - upstream issue tracking (bts-link)
Ludovic Rousseau
ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 12:10:10 UTC 2009
2009/6/6 Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>:
> Hi Ludovic,
Hello,
> I'm writing you since you're the maintainer of pilot-link plucker jpilot .
>
> As you might know, Debian has a tool to regularly check upstream issue
> trackers to monitor the status of forwarded bugs: bts-link[1].
>
> [1] http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Sadly, [2] and [3] (the issue trackers for these packages) tend to
> blacklist too aggressively clients that generate some traffic on them.
>
> [2] http://bugs.pilot-link.org
> [3] http://bugs.jpilot.org/
Do you receive rejection mails or the mails your robot sends are just lost?
> I've already tried to contact upstream but I got no reply (maybe due
> to some problem with MLs).
> Since you got a lot of forwarded bugs for those packages, I think it's
> important that they can be monitored by bts-link.
These projects are not really active upstream any more.
And I receive a mail when a bug I submitted upstream has a status change.
> So I'm here to kindly ask you to leverage on upstream to lower the
> blacklist limit, at least for Debian project machine (as of now, I run
> the script from merkel). If they want, we can provide IPs or host
> names/domains to whitelist us.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your collaboration.
I will try to contact the admin.
Bye
--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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