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Posted Mar 28, 2026 17:13 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Random thought by IanKelling
Parent article: The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)

Would salsa.debian.org qualify ?

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Posted Mar 29, 2026 16:31 UTC (Sun) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link] (3 responses)

> Would salsa.debian.org qualify ?

From what I can see, no. https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa says "Salsa is supposed to provide the necessary tools for package maintainers, packaging teams and other Debian related individuals and groups for collaborative development. "

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Posted Mar 30, 2026 11:12 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, Salsa allows non-Debian contributors to join and hosts some non-Debian free software projects projects too.

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Posted Mar 31, 2026 20:19 UTC (Tue) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link] (1 responses)

Ya, but the message is fairly clear that the combination of those 2 things (non-contributor doing non-debian stuff) is not how debian wants it to be used on average.

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Posted Apr 3, 2026 19:20 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Yeah, I think one would want either the user to have "enough" Debian impact to ignore it or for the project to be Debian-relevant (-specific?) enough to warrant hosting on salsa.debian.org. Same with s/Debian/Fedora/g and Fedora's forge.