Hello, Santiago Vila [10/Feb 3:15pm +01] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 01:48:17PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> Sean, this and the fact that sponsored uploads are not detected as such >> by various services (there's a BTS bug about it but I'm too lazy to dig >> it up), make me revert your latest commit to developers-reference main >> branch. >> >> Please lets discuss such fundamental workflows changes first in some MR >> (or bugreport) before changing dev-ref's recommendations. >> >> It's clear that you thing that tag2upload is the greatest since sliced >> bread [...] > > I think the same. This is a quote from developers-reference: > > "This is the new way to upload for the majority of people's work." > > What about showing available options and letting people to choose how > they want to upload their packages? > > If this new method is so much better, people will naturally follow it > and we should not need to tell people that they "have" to use it, right?
That section of dev-ref is for newcomers. I haven't looked at that section of dev-ref since I became a DD, and I would assume the same is true for others. Newcomers should be directed to use the most up-to-date tools for their work. That's not the same as telling anyone what they must use. -- Sean Whitton
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