On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 03:31:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > For example, there are those of us who think that the downsides of the > combination of 3.0 (quilt) and patches stored unapplied in git are > significant, and so we have made attempts to provide alternatives, such > as git-debrebase. Contributing to Debian would be a lot less fun if we > were asked to just set these reasons aside and use something which to us > is clearly technically inferior.
You can appreciate that the decision you took, in your interest, has the direct cost that Romain mentioned, right? Even if I agree with you about the technical merits of your approach, and I do, the consequence is an increasingly complex and non-uniform surface area for other contributors. The task would be mammoth, and the likelyhood of success not guaranteed, but I think in these circumstances implementing a technical improvement to a project-wide process would be the way to go. This pre-supposes that there *was* a project-wide process. There I agree with other posters on this thread: this is where to start. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
