Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)
> > My concern about Gitlab is not its *additions* to existing services, but
> > its *duplications* of core services already in Debian.
>
> I agree, that's the key problem.
I agree that duplication is bad - but I disagree that use of version
control duplicates the use of the Debian archive for source code
storage, or that use of GitLab for code reviews would duplicate
Debbugs.
> > ...instead of lumping all those discussions into a discussion of ease of
> > user interface for a single catch-all code forge that maybe make all those
> > other complications go away by affecting all those questions and that way
> > implicitly provides *some* answer to them all.
>
> Also, there is a difference between ease of use and intuitivity. GitLab
> does not provide any tools that really make packaging easier. It is
> initially more accessible to non-maintainers, because of familiarity,
> but actual work happens outside of it.
Would you be kind and try to understand the opposing viewpoint by
trying it for one day?
You could go to
https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/19 and
conduct a code review?
You might discover that GitLab is useful and is not duplicating
Debbugs or anything else in Debian - it is currently the only platform
to conduct code reviews on in a way that has automatic testing and
comment-response-resolved -tracking. Doing code reviews patches
attached in email does not have that.
If you try it out, and still think Salsa is bad for Debian, then I am
more willing to accept your stanze.
- Otto
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