Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload

Holger Levsen writes ("Re: Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload"):
> b.) loosing the information that an upload was sponsored.)

I don't think this is accurate.  The information is not lost.
It's visible in the .changes, and available in UDD, for example.[1]
There is a bug in tracker.d.o, that it isn't displayed.  #1116530.

But, maybe we can sidestep these questions.  Your criticisms don't
apply to uploads done with dgit.  And, indeed dgit push-built is best
practice for NEW uploads:

The improvements for the maintainer, when switching from dput to dgit,
are not trivial.  But, more importantly, dgit push-* is the only way
to publish the source code as git in systematically and reliably
useable and buildable form.  That is a real benefit to our users and
downstreams.

How about a patch that recommends use of dgit for uploads?

Ian.

[1] I don't think the current representation in UDD
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116530#41
is particularly good - IMO the sponsor should be in "signed_by",
and the t2u information should be relegated to a special field,
in accordance with UDD's usual principles of providing cooked,
directly useable data.