Hi Bill and Wookey! In a recent long thread on debian-devel you had somewhat negative sentiments towards the usefulness of Salsa. I do see you doing good technical work for Debian and recently a MR from Bill too, so I was thinking that maybe you will change your mind when you read more in-depth arguments. This is my attempt to have you think about Salsa in a new light:
On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 11:41, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > Having a repository on salsa or even "packaging team" does not prevent > a lack of maintainer, so this is not relevant. > Without a maintainer, no contribution will be merged in any case. Consider this Merge Request to fix debbugs builds immediately, and to include Salsa-CI to keep the build from regressing again: https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/19 1. If the package was not on git and Salsa, I would have no way to see what the maintainers have been doing in the years 2018-2023 (Debian repos had last upload in 2018) 2. If the package was not on Salsa, and had the MR feature active, I would not be able to submit a MR to fix the issues. Now the MR is up there, and anybody can review and comment it - thus we are not even dependent on the original maintainers alone. 3. The UI is easy and useful. I invite you to read my MR and add your review. I made have some extra instructions to make this very welcoming for people who do not "like" Salsa/GitLab and might feel that something is unintuitive 4. If you don't want to use the web UI, you can also download my patch https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/19.patch and review by email. Or you can click in the UI once to subscribe the MR and then continue review/comments by email. Personally I fully agree with the people stating that "Salsa is the best thing in Debian in the past 20 years". So far everyone I talked to who initially had reservations regarding using Salsa have started liking it after they learned a bit more how it works, and have seen things like Salsa-CI in action saving the Debian archive from needless widespread failures. Thanks, Otto
