Re: Ubuntu branches on salsa

Hi Iain,

Am 12.06.19 um 11:30 schrieb Iain Lane:
> Hi there,
> 
> This is something we've talked about in the Ubuntu team, and I've been
> meaning to bring it up with pkg-gnome for a while but kept delaying. I'm
> wearing both my Debian and Ubuntu hats here.
> 
> When we switched to git in pkg-gnome, Ubuntu also followed suit. On the
> Ubuntu side we've been pushing to Launchpad. By and large (IMO) it's
> been positive - our packages are derived from Debian's and this makes it
> much easier to maintain the delta. But there are some warts that can
> make it difficult to work with, particularly for new and drive-by
> contributors and people who don't yet have a good mental model of how
> git and gbp work. I'll not go into all the details, but the main one is
> that the 'upstream' and 'pristine-tar' branches get really difficult to
> handle if they are out of sync downstream - when we want to take a
> release ahead of Debian or if we're occasionally on a different series,
> for example.
> 
> My proposal is to allow Ubuntu (no reason that other downstreams
> couldn't do this if they were in a similar position too) branches to be
> pushed to the repositories on salsa. This would require that we add
> members of the Ubuntu team to the group. On the Ubuntu side we'll take
> responsibility for educating our developers to avoid disrupting Debian's
> work. I think it'd be possible to arrange the permissions so that they
> can't push to 'debian/*' (make those maintainer-only, and only grant
> Ubuntu people the developer permission), but I hope we could try without
> doing that initially.
> 
> I believe that the MySQL / mariadb team does something like this:
> 
>   https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mysql (look at the branches)
> 
> Thoughts / objections / non-objections?
> 

I'm not really active anymore in pkg-gnome so take my feedback with a
grain of salt, but what I would do is to pick a couple of packages (some
trival ones (like games) and some more complicated, like glib), and just
try for a while and then re-evaluate later.
If there is a benefit for Debian to add those Ubuntu branches, then I
don't see why it shouldn't be added.
My point is that we probably can't tell without trying and we shouldn't
be afraid to doing so.

Michael





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