Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On July 24, 2019 1:16:37 PM UTC, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:
> ❦ 24 juillet 2019 12:23 +00, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>:
>
>> This entire discussion feels to me like a small group of developers
>> trying to tell the rest of us "my way or the highway". We are
>> perfectly capable of phasing out obsolete workflows without a hammer
>> like a GR (remember dpatch).
>
>Without a GR, the outcome is decided by a shouting contest. A GR seeems
>great to know if people are a majority or not.

50% + 1 of developers mandating details like this to 50% - 1 of developers is a horrible way to solve problems like this.

If you want people to do things a certain way, have it solve problems that cause people to decide they want to use it.  Once you get rough consensus on the new way, change policy.

Scott K