Re: Debian and Non-Free Services
On 9/13/19 5:29 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, September 13, 2019 10:52:37 AM EDT Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>>> "MJ" == MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> writes:
>> MJ> I have some sympathy with the "send a patch to bugs.debian.org"
>> MJ> view. Do any developers ignore those and tell people to join
>> MJ> github to use its private version of pull requests? I know I
>> MJ> have patches ignored in there but I don't remember being told to
>> MJ> go sign a github contract.
>>
>> I believe we have a strong consensus in the Git Packaging Round 1 thread
>> on debian-devel that maintainers are expected to process patches
>> submitted through the BTS. Telling someone they needed to use Github
>> would be unacceptable in my mind.
>
> Is anyone actually doing that? I think this entire thread is nothing more
> than a stalking horse for Ian's crusade to get everyone to use dgit and we
> should just move on.
Absolutely.
Nobody should be forced to use a tool - or not.
Also if you want to send a pull request and don't want to use github,
clone the repo to whatever service you like and send a PR from there via
the BTS. Where is the problem?
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