Hi Sam, > BTS for Patches > =============== > > Regardless of anything they are doing with Git, maintainers of a package > are expected to process patches sent to the BTS. You cannot respond to > a patch telling someone they need to file a merge request to have it > considered. > Today, the BTS is still very much an appropriate way to propose changes > to a Debian package.
I agree with that, although I think that we should tell bug reporters that - if the package is maintained on salsa (or maybe github, gitlab, ...), then we prefer merge/pull requests. > Unmonitored Merge Requests Harmful > ================================== > [...] Thats why I would suggest 3. If a package is maintained on salsa, maintainers have to process merge requests. Please note that I did not write "accept". Denying requests is very valid of course. > > VCS Packaging Info > ================== > > If you have a public repo then you should use vcs-git and vcs-browser. > I'm reasonably sure this is even already well documented. Definitely. If that is not yet in policy, it should go in there asap. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
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