On Tue Apr 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM BST, Holger Levsen wrote: > - I love git. > - I very much dislike git-buildpackage, too much magic. I try to avoid it > where I can. > - I like salsa. (though I think for many new contributors this is rather > a barrier "why not use github" directly. Also salsa is Debian only, > which also is a barrier for some.) > - I love autopkgtests. > - I hardly every look at the autopkgs logs on salsaci, cause I find > them incomprehensible and the javascript "UX" makes me wanna chop wood. > - I also think disallowing single-person maintainership would be very unwise, > though I agree team maintenance in general is probably better than > single-person maintainership. Still disallowing single-person maintainership > doesnt make a team and motivation lost is often motivation lost forever.
I agree with everything you say here! Wrt git-buildpackage, I'd like to add that personally, I respect the gbp authors and maintainers and it's a very useful tool to bring together some complex workflows and in particular successfully move a lot of people over from svn-buildpackage. I do however agree that there's too much magic. Some of that is inherited from the Debian-specific tooling it sits on top of: I also think there's too much magic and/or complexity in debuild and dpkg-buildpackage. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
