On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 05:41:22AM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Just wondering why we need to control the branch name of proposed topic > branch, or even use a single repo to receive contributions. > > My thought is that all we need is the "Pull Request / Merge Request" feature > on Alioth, where random contributors (who might have absolutely no permission > anywhere) can create forks (forked repositories) freely and request for review > and eventual merge from the forked repo into main repo if necessary. People > are much familiar with such workflow similar to GitHub / GitLab's fork-and- > merge behaviour. We also want merge requests! This DEP's implementation should live alongside those. Per the DEP: > it is very useful for a maintainer to know that a change has been > approved by someone who has been trusted by the project with the > technical ability to NMU the package This would be much more cumbersome to achieve with PRs. -- Sean Whitton
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