Hi Matthew! > > Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please help review > > them! > > I'd much much rather MRs were associated with bug reports; that way I > only have to remember to check one place for outstanding issues in my > packages, and years down the line when I wonder "why did this change get > made" I can look up the bug report in the BTS.
Yes, for bugs that makes sense. Please note however that Merge Requests is more than just patches/bug fixes. It is a general mechanism to facilitate code reviews. It does not necessarily make sense to publish every commit as a patch on bugs.debian.org before committing it to the git repository. Also, in many cases it may be most efficient to file at bugs.debian.org only the issue, and do the actual code submission, testing, and re-submission as a Merge Request. If you don't like using Salsa or don't like reviewing Merge Requests, then this call is probably not for you. However, if you want Debian to grow and you want to welcome new contributors, or in general work in a collaborative way towards ending single-maintainer packages, reviewing MRs posted by others a great way to help out.
