Package: dgit
Version: 8.4
Severity: wishlist
08:08 <helmut> Diziet, spwhitton: would it make sense for dgit to "support"
change submission? dgit-user "SHARING YOUR WORK" seems to leave
too much manual to me. would "dgit reportbug" make sense as a
means to invoke reportbug with the right source, version,
template, attachment? or maybe integrate with devscripts/salsa
mr? not sure.
08:10 <helmut> it seems to me that a primary purpose of dgit is to deemphasize
package ownership by making the interaction with packages more
uniform. (<- that seems very valuable to me)
08:11 <helmut> while it makes source packages more accessible to
non-maintainers, it doesn't make contribution significantly
easiert it seems.
Hi. Thanks for your suggestion.
I agree that something like this would be nice. I'm not sure if it
should be part of dgit. It has the same issue as "dgit nmudiff" that
it does not involve source packages. But maybe this is just me being
overly picky. Certainly this should exist and the dgit source package
is a good place for it.
dgit's philosophy has been to gateway between "official Debian"
practices and gitish practices. I think that means "dgit reportbug"
and not something to deal with salsa. If and when official Debian
practices provide a way to submit a MR to salsa (or whatever) without
manually pratting about with the maintainer's git workflow, then it
can be changed.
I'm not sure "reportbug" is the right name. Also, people vary about
how much of the "bug report text" they like to put in the commit
message. So I think there are a few unanswered UI questions.
I think the next step is for someone to think about those questions
and propose a more concrete set of behaviours for this proposed new
thing.
HTH.
08:11 <helmut> Diziet: i'd file a bug if you like, but only if the prospect is
actionable. I really hate non-actionable bugs.
I think this is actionable, if we allow "do the actual design" to be
an action. I have a lot of wishlist bugs that are like this.
Regards,
Ian.
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