On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:47:49 -0400 Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: > That said, I'm really confused that your message didn't get any > response before now. Considering how sharp some of the responses > were on -project, I don't know how to take this. Were people not > responding because the -project discussion was so recent, they didn't > see a need to rehash it? Were people not responding because -devel > has a very different audience and everyone here agrees with you? That's really easy: Most people aviod harsh or sharp answers, i'm not. And to be honest, i don't really understand all the discussions about git. It's just a tool - and most of the time misused in debian. Not that i'm the biggest git expert on earth - i'm only a happy user for ten years now. And the ten years include bitbucket, github, gitlab, gitblit, gitea, gitolite, gerrit and so on - so it is totally irrelevant to some extend where things are hosted, it remains git in the very end.
Regarding the workflow and participation - it might be a problem that one need an account for github or other non-free services - it's easy: No account, no participation, bad luck. In one thing Ian is right: Debian packages should not be hosted on non-free services. I would go a step further: No Debian package must be hosted outside of debian. Period. Problem solved. That would prevent problems like the ones with debian live hosted by Progress Linux, LXDE packaging hosted on https://git.lxde.org (broken for some month now) and so on. Would really make sense, but is a different story. Another though: If we start not to allow packaging on non free services and using non-free tools - what would be next: Considering projects that use non-free services like github or bitbucket as non-free - in this case please drop the whole LXQt from debian, we will continue to use github.com in near future and are not planning a change right now. Cheers Alf -- Alf Gaida BDBF C688 EFAD BA89 5A9F 464B CD28 0A0B 4D72 827C