>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes:
Sean> Hello, Sean> On Wed 03 Apr 2019 at 12:51PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Bikeshedding"): >>> Statement: every Debian package must be maintained in Git on >>> salsa and every Debian Developer with upload rights to the >>> archive should have commit/push right to every packaging >>> repository on salsa. >>> >>> DPL candidates: do you agree with this statement? If so, what >>> will be your approach to make this a reality? >> >> What git tree format do you mandate ? >> >> Such an imprecation is of little use if "maintained in git on >> salsa" means for some packages a giant packaging-only monorepo >> (like used by some language-specific packaging teams), for some a >> git-debrebase or git-dpm patches-applied tree, for some a merging >> git branch for use with 1.0-with-diff, and for some a gbp pq >> branch. Sean> Yes. The amount of effort that we would need to expend on Sean> implementing zack's Statement seems out of proportion to the Sean> benefit, given that it mandates no particular git workflow. I disagree. Would be happy to discuss on -devel after the election. I've written Ian a detailed reply privately outlining my thoughts on advantages of salsa even without specifying a git workflow.