Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa
On 7/23/19 7:31 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 1- Mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser, meaning we do mandate using Git for
> packaging.
why is that a reason for a GR?
its a question for the policy editors.
Also you would force everybody to use git, so this is not acceptable at all.
> 2- Mandating using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout for Git, as this
> seems to be the most popular layout, and that we need some kind of
> consistency.
no, thanks. Thats also not a thing to decide in a GR.
> 3- Mandating using Salsa as a Git repository.
If that would really pass a GR, I'll start to remove packages from
Debian....
>
> I do believe #1 will pass easily, but that it's useless without #2, and
> there is some kind of uncertainty. For #3, I'm not even sure we should
> vote for that, I probably even prefer it not to be voted for myself,
> though what's annoying me is having to pull some packaging from non-free
> services such as Github, and this would make an end to it.
>
> Please do devide your replies clearly on the 3 topics. If you see other
> topics that should be discussed, please identify them clearly as well.
>
> For those not convinced yet on the utility of such a GR, just think
> about a few months/years from now, where we will be 100% sure that
> absolutely all packages will be hosted on Salsa (or another system we
> decide to migrate to) with the same Git layout, and how easy it will be
> (for example) to add some kind of CI/CD for all packages.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
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