Hi Barry, thanks for your work! On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> wrote: > Here's the page I mentioned regarding a *proposed* transition plan to using > git for team packages. It's more or less a brain dump right now, and don't > feel like you need to read it before the DC14 session. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Python/GitPackaging
nothing against your effort or experiments (I really appreciate it), but I still don't see what is the advantages of moving to Git. It seems to me like very vocal Git fanatics, who refuse to touch any package which is not maintained in Git (-.-), are pushing and pushing to that VCS without any clear advantage. Upstream releases history? why do we need to care, we are packagers we should care about packaging commits history. ultimately, you'll always have to deal with tarballs, so we need a tool to import released tarballs in a VCS and then another tool to re-generate the tarball from the VCS again? seems kinda twisted to me :) And no, not the whole programming world is using Git for upstream code (sometimes we're not even able to teach upstream to use proper versions), so the usual mantra "I can pull from upstream repo and be happy ever after" is kinda weak. Offline commits? how many time (for real..) you badly needed it? i guess so few that if you (for one time) just do a big commit instead of a storm of micro commit the world wont stop is there anything else so "attractive" about git? If we don't define *upfront* what are the problems we currently have and that we want to solve, then we're just proposing a technical exercise without a real gain. and I cant stress this point never enough. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAB4XWXzM8nDbwLBnTMbjTc_T+MMqWWQiQjDKeS0R=yjhh6y...@mail.gmail.com