Hi, Am Sonntag, den 20.05.2012, 13:03 -0700 schrieb John Millikin: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > > Hmm, I’m not convinced that this is a good idea. One advantage of the > > DHG is that everyone of us can easily do changes affecting many or all > > of the Haskell packages directly. This would not be the case any more if > > the packaging was hosted somewhere else. It would also prevent the > > packages from appearing on > > http://pkg-haskell.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi > > > > What is your motivation to use your own infrastructure instead of the > > common one? > > First, I strongly prefer using Bazaar over Darcs or Git. Bazaar > retains more metadata about files and the repository, has a nicer user > interface, and is very easy to programmatically interact with via its > Python API. > > Second, Alioth seems to have some performance issues -- 'darcs get' on > the trees there is taking almost a minute, and the graphical branch > browser just spins indefinitely until timeout. I don't think the issue > is on my end, because other sites are working fine. > > Third, and this one is maybe just selfishness, but I'd rather have > control over how my software is packaged. Using Ubuntu has made me > pretty gun-shy about maintainer patches, so being able to review > changes to the packaging is very attractive. > > If it turns out to be a problem, then I promise to move the > repositories to Alioth, but for now is it OK if they're hosted > elsewhere? well, after I told you my POV, I won’t stop you. After all, I might be wrong :-) But your packages might be somewhat second class citizens then. E.g. when there is a coordinated change to all Haskell package it might happen that do it only on those maintained in the group repositories, and sliently expect you to have followed d-haskell and applied the change to your packages (or spoken up in time if you diagree). In fact, if you are fine with that, I’d recommend that you do _not_ put the DHG as the maintainer of the packages and hence take the full and only responsibility for them, as you already did for haskell-ncurses. Nontheless your contributions under the DHG for other packages are appreciated. Greetings, Joachim PS: I already sponsored -patience as it showed up in PET as „Ready to upload“. -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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