Bug#1035733: debian -policy: packages must not use dpkg-divert to override default systemd configuraton files
Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:
> Snarks aside, allowing merge requests to be open on Salsa in _addition_
> to attachments to the BTS, as the vast majority of other packages
> already do, doesn't take away anything from you, but would add quite a
> lot for the rest of us, who find ourselves very limited and very much
> barrier-ized by clunky, old and painful email-based processes.
Merge requests are useful when the goal is to be able to merge the merge
request as-is at the end of some code review process. My guess is that
this happens about 20% of the time with Policy. The other 80% of the time
I tweak wording or phrasing or formatting when applying the change, and
also add an upgrading-checklist entry and other bookkeeping that I don't
want to have to explain to everyone proposing new wording.
Policy is not a program and we're not taking source code changes. The goal
of the discussion is to converge on the semantics of what we are going to
say, which often requires multi-paragraph discussions where the normal
tools of email such as quoting are more useful. I find trying to have an
email-style discussion in Salsa to be annoying and tedious. It also
fragments the record, whereas having it in the bug means I can, at any
time, load the entire bug into Gnus and re-read the discussion of how we
arrived at the decision in the same tool that I use for reading all other
Debian discussions.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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