Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On 2014-08-20 02:32:10 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote:
[...]
> Good! For the moment, it has worked nicely, apart from the fact that
> *some* upstream, like Jeremy Stanley, don't like it. I honestly feel
> sorry about that, especially with people like Jeremy and other OpenStack
> folks which are doing truly awesome work, and for which I have a lot of
> respect.
>
> And would like to let him understand the reasons that are pushing me to
> work this way. I also feel like it's mostly a non-issue, for which
> there's no reason to be that picky (just let go, Jeremy? :)).
[...]
Fair enough! I will admit (having been a devoted Debian user in
personal and large commercial settings for the past 15+ years but
only an occasional packager) that I'm very impressed at how you keep
up with the extreme volume of packaging you do day to day, and
ultimately feel however you manage to maximize your efficiency is
best for everyone. My main upstream takeaway from this is that we
should perhaps be considering tarballs as a target-specific
packaging format (PyPI et al) in and of themselves any longer,
rather than a general release item and stop placing as much focus on
them in release announcements if packagers are mostly just consuming
source directly from our version control systems now.
Thanks for considering my (apparently outdated) arguments, and keep
up the good work!
--
Jeremy Stanley
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