In data domenica 23 agosto 2020 13:52:00 CEST, Jonas Smedegaard ha scritto: > Quoting Pino Toscano (2020-08-23 11:57:16) > > In data domenica 23 agosto 2020 11:47:47 CEST, Jonas Smedegaard ha scritto: > > > Jonas Smedegaard commented: > > > > > > Thanks for your proposed change. > > > > > > Please, however, instead contribute to the related Debian bugreport archived at https://bugs.debian.org/968555 and accessible by posting email to <mailto:968555@bugs.debian.org>. > > > > > > Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience: Even though this Gitlab service at salsa.debian.org offers an issue tracker, Debian uses a different email-based issue tracker. > > > > > > I will now close this issue _without_ solving it, and hope you will join the conversation at bug#968555 > > > > Err, sorry, but this is not true. There were other MRs in the past for > > ffmpeg, and they were accepted/merged by other ffmpeg uploaders. > > Also, I see you disabled MRs altogether, which makes even past MRs not > > reacheable anymore, which is bad. > > > > Please reconsider this, Jonas. > > It is true that Debian uses debbugs as issue tracker. This does not imply anything about other solutions. > You are free to insist that it is possible to do other things than what > I am pointing out as a recommended way forward. Maybe someone find your > different approach great and best and true. Jonas, I honestly do not understand the point you are trying to make here. There are two problems in what you did, let me explain them further more: Problem #1: sudden rejection of merge requests. They were accepted in the past, mostly by James Cowgill: https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ffmpeg/-/commit/6b1b5c4cccd2d98d4c0177e840a3f2fff27c9d9a https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ffmpeg/-/commit/d0ecb3e1fac0f656253f1d18a007dd63f76daaf6 https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ffmpeg/-/commit/2158164c70223f7881136200cd5427e65a6af66b Considering my MR was !5, this makes 3 out of 4 previous MRs reviewed and accepted by ffmpeg maintainers (assuming you didn't kick James out in the meanwhile, of course). For a potential contributor, looking at a packaging repository and noticing that MRs are accepted encourages sending changes as MRs; suddently changing this by another maintainer gives a *bad* message, i.e. that there is no agreement by maintainers, and this kind of contributions is at the whim of the "active maintainer of the week". Problem #2: hiding of past MR information Since you disabled the MRs in the salsa repository, then all the past ones cannot be seen anymore. I think all the discussions/etc are still in the gitlab database, but practically speaking all the data is *lost* for normal users (including you and me). This is the equivalent of making bugs in the BTS no more accessible, not even as archived. Again, Jonas, please reconsider what you did. This has nothing to do with my own stupid patch, but in general with the way you are showing "collaboration". Thanks, -- Pino Toscano
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