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Ok, welcome back to the second session
of the day.

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It's going to be Alexander Wirt talking
about salsa.debian.org.

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[Applause]

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Thank you, good morning.

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I usually don't give talks in english,
so please be nice to me.

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However, I'm here.

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I want to talk today about our journey
for Alioth

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which is still running, but not for long
anymore,

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to our new service, salsa.

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I want to get a little bit into the history
of old things

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and what we have already achieved,
what we still need to achieve

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and what are our plans for the future.

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Let's start with the basic things,
who am I.

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I am the guy who rejects the mails
on lists.debian.org,

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I am a listmaster.

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I am the guy that rejects your backports.

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I am the backports ftp master.

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And I am the guy that will destroy
alioth.debian.org.

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For the last ten years

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[Applause]

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I was an admin by accident of
alioth.debian.org.

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This is another story I will tell you
in a few minutes.

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Beside from that, I work as an OpenSource
consultant at credativ,

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which is a small company in Germany
which is specialized in OpenSource,

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we only do OpenSource consulting
in Germany.

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We do what today is called DevOps,
we do every kind of consulting.

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If you do something with OpenSource,
we are probably the ones you can talk with.

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I am a father of two wonderful girls,

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they're not here unfortunately,

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but otherwise I wouldn't be able
to work.

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And in my little bit spare time, I do
role playing games and Tabletop games.

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In theory there should be a picture now.

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There's a picture missing,
I don't know why,

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which should tell "We need you".

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A little bit of advertisement, if you
want to do OpenSource work in Germany,

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paid,

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and you need a job, please talk to me.

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We are always looking for good people,
especially in C development,

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kernel development, but also of course
consulting.

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So please talk to me.

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Some steps in history.

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Some years ago, ???
2008, 2009,

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I told the alioth channel

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"Hey, if you need help, I can help with
system administration,

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not the GForge stuff which is running
above,

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but if you need help, tell me."

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[Audience] Big mistake

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Yeah.

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One or two years went by,
and step by step

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all alioth admins left.

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We were alone in the channel.

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And around that time, I detected

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"Hey, I have sudo permissions
and I'm admin"

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Somebody made me an admin.

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So, I had to decide that I will be
the person that is the future alioth admin

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and I stepped in.

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So it was the beginning of our alioth
journey.

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Then, in DebConf15, we had a long
'Birds of a Feather'

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where we talked about several security
problems in collab-maint,

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some of you are maybe not aware of it,

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but since we use git at filesystem level
on alioth,

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we are introducing a number of interesting
security problems

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like if someone writes a hook, that hook
gets executed every time someone pushes.

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So you have basically shell access.

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And of course you execute it as
your own uid.