Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa
On 2019-09-25 07:15, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes:
>
> >> For several of these recommendations if I cannot get consensus, I
> >> will call for a GR myself.
>
> Scott> What do you think is important enough in this area that you
> Scott> would rather have people not contribute to Debian if they
> Scott> aren't willing to do it your way?
>
> Nothing.
> The thing about recommendations is that you don't have to follow them.
>
> I think that recommendations leading toward more uniform practices have
> huge value even if some people don't follow them.
Is the recommendation working well under most circumstances?
I mean, different teams have already made their conventions
at these point, such as go team, rust team, nvidia team, etc.
These team designed "local" recommendations always adapt
well with special property of their corresponding ecosystems.
Designing a convincing "global" recommendation that works
nearly everywhere is difficult.
While designing ML-policy I discovered that it's easy
to find exceptions to break the global rules.
> And eventually, when we have enough experience it might well be that
> having more uniformity is worth some people not directly contributing to
> Debian.
> I don't know if we'll ever make that trade off and I know we wouldn't
> (and shouldn't) make it today.
As you said, recommendations are merely recommendations.
Debian developers customed to their own workflow may
not necessarily follow the recommendations. However, the
recommendation makes a difference for newbies or newcomers,
if their arbitrary educational resources share uniformed
recommends. To some extent I think debian development is
destined to be diversified.
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