Re: Bikeshedding

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

    Sean> Hello,
    Sean> On Wed 03 Apr 2019 at 12:51PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote:

    >> Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Bikeshedding"):
    >>> Statement: every Debian package must be maintained in Git on
    >>> salsa and every Debian Developer with upload rights to the
    >>> archive should have commit/push right to every packaging
    >>> repository on salsa.
    >>> 
    >>> DPL candidates: do you agree with this statement?  If so, what
    >>> will be your approach to make this a reality?
    >> 
    >> What git tree format do you mandate ?
    >> 
    >> Such an imprecation is of little use if "maintained in git on
    >> salsa" means for some packages a giant packaging-only monorepo
    >> (like used by some language-specific packaging teams), for some a
    >> git-debrebase or git-dpm patches-applied tree, for some a merging
    >> git branch for use with 1.0-with-diff, and for some a gbp pq
    >> branch.

    Sean> Yes.  The amount of effort that we would need to expend on
    Sean> implementing zack's Statement seems out of proportion to the
    Sean> benefit, given that it mandates no particular git workflow.

I disagree.
Would be happy to discuss on -devel after the election.
I've written Ian a detailed reply privately outlining my thoughts on
advantages of salsa even without specifying a git workflow.