Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
mbeh...@debian.org wrote: >I think we have seen and still see with usrmerge how difficult and cumbersome >the resolution of an initially as simple presented project turned out. I >understand the answer of Scott directed in that way, at least this is a >reservation of mine. For the record, usrmerge

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Micha Lenk
Hi Ian, Am 23.06.24 um 20:32 schrieb Ian Jackson: Micha Lenk writes ("Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion"): In general our traditional approach of handling source packages is, we upload upstream's source achive plus our modifications (patches) and instructions how to

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 1:55:00 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:43:47 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > >> You are entitled to believe that my analysis is wrong. You are not > >> entitled to claim that I didn't do the work that I did, quite publicl

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Russ Allbery: " Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion" (Sun, 23 Jun 2024 10:55:00 -0700): > So rather than attacking me, you were insinuating attacks on other people. > I'm not sure that's any better. Sorry, I am unable to see a personal attack whatsoever when reading

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Micha Lenk writes ("Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion"): > In general our traditional approach of handling source packages is, > we upload upstream's source achive plus our modifications (patches) > and instructions how to build it (the packaging). Our tooling > (basic

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:43:47 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: >> You are entitled to believe that my analysis is wrong. You are not >> entitled to claim that I didn't do the work that I did, quite publicly >> and openly, right here on this mailing list for everyone to se

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 1:16:38 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:48:09 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > >> As mentioned in the summary, I believe we've found a resolution to this > >> problem provided that the FTP team is willing to implement the pr

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:48:09 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: >> As mentioned in the summary, I believe we've found a resolution to this >> problem provided that the FTP team is willing to implement the protocol >> I described in dak, which Ansgar seemed supportive of. T

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:43:47 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > I think that can work both ways. I am old enough to have seen many > > instances of some new hotness coming along and any objection to it being > > swept aside because it was clear that the people objecting

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 11:48:09 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > First, as I understand the position of the FTP Masters involved in this > > discussion (for clarity, I'm a non-delegated member of the FTP Team > > (i.e. FTP Assistant)), their view is that determining if an

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > First, as I understand the position of the FTP Masters involved in this > discussion (for clarity, I'm a non-delegated member of the FTP Team > (i.e. FTP Assistant)), their view is that determining if an upload is > from a person authorized to upload to the Debian archiv

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > I think that can work both ways. I am old enough to have seen many > instances of some new hotness coming along and any objection to it being > swept aside because it was clear that the people objecting just didn't > understand why the new hotness was so wonderful and w

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 10:57:26 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon Richter writes: > > The difference is the expectation that the delegates will continue to > > perform this work and therefore need to deal with the long term > > impact. One-time contributions are welcomed as long as they are a n

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 10:46:33 AM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Urlichs writes: > > On 23.06.24 04:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> that just feels wrong to me. Rude. Dismissive. And self-defeating > >> for Debian as a whole. > > > > 100% agree. Though again: that *feels* rude and dismissi

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Richter writes: > The difference is the expectation that the delegates will continue to > perform this work and therefore need to deal with the long term > impact. One-time contributions are welcomed as long as they are a net > positive, but not all of them are, and some take up hundreds of

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Urlichs writes: > On 23.06.24 04:45, Russ Allbery wrote: >> that just feels wrong to me. Rude. Dismissive. And self-defeating >> for Debian as a whole. > 100% agree. Though again: that *feels* rude and dismissive. I'm *not* > ascribing *intent* to be rude or dismissive to anybody her

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload"): > ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: > > In this message I discuss in some detail five packaging workflows. > > I am more familiar with the gbp patches-unapplied workflow: can you > point us to some educationlly relevant

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-23 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 23.06.24 04:45, Russ Allbery wrote: Blocking people's work beause it's actively dangerous, sure, sometimes we have to do that and it sucks but it may make sense. But blocking people's work because it didn't solve a larger problem than they wanted to solve, or cared more about backward compati