On Monday, April 22, 2019 09:35:20 PM Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2019/04/22 14:36, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > On 2019-04-22 09:55, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > >> Alioth did not get in my way. > > > > Salsa does not get into my way neither. I barely use the web > > frontend, I do not use the issue tracker at all, nor merge > > requests. Works fine for me! > > Same here, with Alioth, I often didn't figure out what I needed to do. I > spent large amount of time trying to do something before I just ended up > giving up. In GitLab, even when I'm not sure where a setting or button > is it at least doesn't take long to figure out where to do it. I think > Salsa is the single best thing to have happened in Debian in recent > years. It's definitely something that reduces the barrier of entry to > the Debian project, and I agree with recent sentiments expressed on the > debian-vote list that we should standardise on salsa completely. That > will pave the way for more ambitious ideas that are worth while like > standardising on a git-based source package, which right now seems like > a bit much to chew off in one go.
Even assuming it's a good idea at all, which I don't think one should assume. Scott K
