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

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

Enrico Zini writes:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:27:15PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> But I think having recommendations available when people are new, when
>> they are looking for what to do when writing new tools, when the trade
>> offs don't matter, is really important.  I think it's important enough
>> that it's worth time for a quick vote (and I do believe we can
>> efficiently handle GRs).
[...]
> Also, as over time my packaging practices have become outdated, I have
> found it both difficult and frustrating to engage on a quest for
> figuring out "how does one do this thing nowadays?"[1], and if there
> were default recommendations available, I would have considered them a
> boon[2].

What does stop the recommendations to be outdated in a year or two?
Given the long and slow process to gather them, there will probably be a
long and slow process to change them; that discourages actually changing
them (too high barrier).

In my opinion we already have similar problems with other
standards/documentation in Debian.

Ansgar