Re: Bikeshedding
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 03:47:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I suppose requiring that they be pull-mirrored to Salsa might make
> > sense, but requiring that the primary place of development for Debian
> > packaging actually be in Salsa would present an obstacle for some of my
> > current packages. Of course, that would mean that direct commits to the
> > Salsa project in such an instance would be problematic.
>
> One of the great things about Git is that there's really no such thing as
> a "primary place of development" since every clone of the repository is
> equal and it's nearly trivial to push a repository to multiple remotes. I
> suppose it could be a statement about process, but if we fleshed out the
> idea some more, I suspect the most it would mean is that maintainers have
> some responsibility to review PRs on Salsa (at least to the level that
> they are responsible for looking at minor bug reports in the BTS), which
> doesn't seem too unreasonable or onerous.
>
I agree with what you are saying here. However, I am concerned that the
"push == automatic package upload" idea may be a step too far in some
cases.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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