Hi there! This probably has been floating around for some time. IMO, enough time so that we start to discuss $subject.
Before starting any type of text for such a GR, I'd like to hear you folks. What are your thougts about all this? Especially, I'd like to hear others that would be *AGAINST* such a GR. I'm not sure yet I really want to start all of this. Sometimes, no GR is better than a GR. If the discussions we will have here leads me to believe there's no chance for the GR to pass, I probably wont initiate it. But at least, I would like the discussion to start. So, the topics are: 1- Mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser, meaning we do mandate using Git for packaging. 2- Mandating using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout for Git, as this seems to be the most popular layout, and that we need some kind of consistency. 3- Mandating using Salsa as a Git repository. I do believe #1 will pass easily, but that it's useless without #2, and there is some kind of uncertainty. For #3, I'm not even sure we should vote for that, I probably even prefer it not to be voted for myself, though what's annoying me is having to pull some packaging from non-free services such as Github, and this would make an end to it. Please do devide your replies clearly on the 3 topics. If you see other topics that should be discussed, please identify them clearly as well. For those not convinced yet on the utility of such a GR, just think about a few months/years from now, where we will be 100% sure that absolutely all packages will be hosted on Salsa (or another system we decide to migrate to) with the same Git layout, and how easy it will be (for example) to add some kind of CI/CD for all packages. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
