Re: finally end single-person maintainership
On Thu, 23 May 2024 at 03:01, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 5/23/24 04:32, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
>
> >>> It could be argued that testing migration is a CI process. >> Its a CI process at a way too late stage.
> >> Also, uploading to test a merge request is not the right thing to do.
>
> > If the archive is a VCS then uploading an untested package to experimental
> > to run tools is pushing a commit to run CI.
> > *shrug*
>
> Yes, but unironically: experimental is a side branch, unstable is a MR,
> and testing is the main branch.
>
> It is entirely valid to be dissatisfied with the turnaround time of the
> existing CI, but what we're seeing here is the creation of a parallel
> structure with as-of-yet unclear scope.
>
> Can we define the scope as "quick-turnaround unofficial validation",
> because that's the niche that is currently underserved?
The main problem is not turnaround (it's terrible ofc), it's that a
broken upload to unstable affects _everybody_, while a CI run on Salsa
is private and doesn't get in the way of other developers.
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