Hi Gioele, Am Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 08:55:51AM +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: > On 14/01/25 23:14, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please help review > > them! > > Could we do the same for BTS patches? > > There are ~5000 patches that have been sitting in the BTS for years, some > trivial (examples from my own: [1,2]),
To my experience from Bug of the Day there are lots of very obvious patches and easy bugs. I fully agree with you that we have the obligation to care for patches in BTS which is our prefered way to report issues. As I wrote in previous mails I consider it worth discussing how we can make this easier for developers who are not listed as Maintainer / Uploader. Feel free to join the DebCamp project suggested by Tobias Frost[3]. > others less so. Most of the time they > are in the BTS because the associated packages have no Git/salsa repo. > > https://bugs.debian.org/tag:patch I'm not sure that these packages are on BTS only because the associated packages have no Git/salsa repo. The BTS is our prefered form of reporting issues. Adding an MR and linking to it as a patch as you did in [1] is perfect and as a maintainer (who has all packages on Salsa) I'm absolutely happy about this. > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1051861 I've merged two of your gzip patches into the gzip repository. I also upgraded debhelper compat level and Standards-Version for the kind review of the maintainer (in BCC, since I know him personally I have no doubt he will act soon). The repository is featuring the new upstream version which IMHO is worth uploading to experimental. At least all tests by Salsa CI are passing[4]. In principle I would tend to do a Debian/ team upload but I'm hesitating for "Priority: required" packages. Thus pinging the maintainer. I will tag the bugs closed by your MRs pending in a separate mail. > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1057101 Its harder to do anything here. The package is actively maintained and I would simply assume the maintainer (in BCC) has somewhere some Git repository since this is the prefered way to maintain code these days. It would be great to have packages of "Priority: required" on Salsa to enable some team work on all our packages with high priority. This might be some topic for the DebCamp project[3] as well. Kind regards Andreas. [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/01/msg00065.html [4] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gzip/-/pipelines/798305 -- https://fam-tille.de
