Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

[Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>]

Sean Whitton writes:
> On Fri 12 Jul 2019 at 02:06PM +02, Ansgar wrote:
>> Depends on a lot of things.  As far as I understand this work is in a
>> very early stage and a first brainstorming session on what problem this
>> is intended to solve, why one should consider doing it, and possible
>> requirements is planned for DebConf[1].
>>
>> Without having any of these, it is hard to comment on anything.
>
> Figuring out how this is going to be deployed as Debian infrastructure
> is indeed at an early stage.
>
> I don't think it is accurate to think of the whole project as being at
> an early stage.  From my perspective, the hardest problem to solve was
> conversion of git trees to uploads, on the server side, in a way that is
> user friendly.  We take ourselves to have solved that problem, which to
> my mind renders this project beyond the early stages of development.

What is the DebConf BOF then for?  It says it is "a requirements
collecting BOF for that [git push] discussion"?

Ansgar