Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> (05/08/2009): > Actually, the counter-argument is that we don't want to make it > *harder* to do a QA upload. Currently, it's "apt-get source ; make > change ; dput". If we used a VCS, we would have to create: - a process > to auto-import orphaned packages into the VCS - procedures to commit > changes to VCS before doing QA uploads > > I don't have numbers about that, but a fair share of QA uploads are done > by one- or two-timers, even a majority of uploads is done by QA folks. > We don't want to make it harder for those one-timers to improve the > status of orphaned packages.
Just to clarify, I meant moving collab-maint/foo.git to e.g. collab-maint/orphaned/foo.git to make it obvious to folks browsing the repository that it's orphaned, while retaining the history. Not suggesting to put everything under $VCS. Sorry for the bad phrasing. Mraw, KiBi.
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