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Re: On using Merge Requests on Salsa



Le Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 08:57:46AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o a écrit :
> What I would suggest instead is that we allow packages to document
> what their advised contribution policy should be. (…)

I plan on doing that for all my packages, using debian/README.source
until some consensus emerges about a better place to document that.

Web views of my packaging repositories are then going to be updated to
show debian/README.source by default, instead of the much less useful
upstream README file.

I understand that this is not (yet?) a documented use of
debian/README.source, and I would be OK to change to something else once
some consensus is reached. But I am not going to wait for such a
consensus to start documenting preferred contribution methods, so this
imperfect solution is what I am going with for now.

> Suggestions that people simply disable Salsa MR's is a form of
> documentation.  It's a bit of a blunt way of doing things and doesn't
> encourage other variants (e.g., submit a MR and then also file a bug
> in the BTS), but at least it is documenting that submitting a MR isn't
> the way to go, at least for a particular package.

I did that, but this is only a temporary measure until I write actual
documentation. Once it’s done and it’s clearer how MR can be used in
relation with the packages I maintain, I’m going to re-enable them.

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