Hi Iain, Am 12.06.19 um 11:30 schrieb Iain Lane: > Hi there, > > This is something we've talked about in the Ubuntu team, and I've been > meaning to bring it up with pkg-gnome for a while but kept delaying. I'm > wearing both my Debian and Ubuntu hats here. > > When we switched to git in pkg-gnome, Ubuntu also followed suit. On the > Ubuntu side we've been pushing to Launchpad. By and large (IMO) it's > been positive - our packages are derived from Debian's and this makes it > much easier to maintain the delta. But there are some warts that can > make it difficult to work with, particularly for new and drive-by > contributors and people who don't yet have a good mental model of how > git and gbp work. I'll not go into all the details, but the main one is > that the 'upstream' and 'pristine-tar' branches get really difficult to > handle if they are out of sync downstream - when we want to take a > release ahead of Debian or if we're occasionally on a different series, > for example. > > My proposal is to allow Ubuntu (no reason that other downstreams > couldn't do this if they were in a similar position too) branches to be > pushed to the repositories on salsa. This would require that we add > members of the Ubuntu team to the group. On the Ubuntu side we'll take > responsibility for educating our developers to avoid disrupting Debian's > work. I think it'd be possible to arrange the permissions so that they > can't push to 'debian/*' (make those maintainer-only, and only grant > Ubuntu people the developer permission), but I hope we could try without > doing that initially. > > I believe that the MySQL / mariadb team does something like this: > > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mysql (look at the branches) > > Thoughts / objections / non-objections? > I'm not really active anymore in pkg-gnome so take my feedback with a grain of salt, but what I would do is to pick a couple of packages (some trival ones (like games) and some more complicated, like glib), and just try for a while and then re-evaluate later. If there is a benefit for Debian to add those Ubuntu branches, then I don't see why it shouldn't be added. My point is that we probably can't tell without trying and we shouldn't be afraid to doing so. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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