On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 22:49, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Le Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci a écrit : > > On 07/04/24 23:11, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa? > > > > > > Not speaking for logtool obviously, but maintaining simple packages on > > > salsa is > > > just useless bureaucracy. > > > > As a contributor, having a package on salsa is extremely useful, far from > > "useless". > > > > By clicking on "fork" (or running the equivalent CLI command) I get a copy > > of the package, with all its history, a Debian-specific CI, the ability to > > work on different features or bug fixes at the same time and independently > > from one another, the possibility to send a merge request, that can be > > annotate line-by-line by all other Debian contributors. > > > > A package with a repo on salsa is sending a clean message: go away, I don't > > want your contribution. > > I suppose you meant _without_. The message is not "your contribution is > not wanted" but rather "your contribution is not needed because there > nothing to do". > > They are hundred of other packages where your contribution would > make a difference. > > Simple packages need someone who is responsible and responsive for them > in the long run and know there history much more than needing sporadic > contributions.
...right up until the point where that "bus factor of 1" moves on/changes priorities/changes job/etc and the package is abandoned. Fortunately that never happens, though!
