Hi Allan, any idea when that general registration would be opened up? Thanks, Colin

Hi all,

With Arch shutting down our current git hosting in the near future, the main repo for pacman development has moved to:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman

Note that the bug tracker will remain on Flyspray and patches will remain submitted through the mailing list until such time that registration for an Arch Gitlab account is open for the wider community.

With the move to gitlab, we now have some CI happening (though only post push at the moment). We currently test a bunch of configurations under Arch, and fairly default things under Fedora and Debian. If any of our BSD friends want to provide an addition to the CI configuration (.gitlab-ci.yml), I am more than happy to include it.

I will move some of the development notes (e.g. my wiki page for the rough design of alternatives etc) into the project wiki.

I'd also like to use the project wiki as an index for Feature Requests, and keep the bug tracker for only bugs. The idea would be any feature request file gets discussed, and if we deem it a suitable addition it then gets added to the wiki. That way we can have an annotated list of potential future feature that anyone can see without having to sift through a bug tracker. Also, real bugs that need fixed will be easier to spot. I am thinking it best to start on this before we open up the issue tracking on gitlab as it will clear our Flyspray bug list up quite a lot.

Cheers, Allan