[Debian-salsa-ci] More Salsa CI stats

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Hi Otto,

On Wed Sep 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM CEST, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I am not sure if Lucas is on this list and reading your feedback, but 
> AFAIK the trends.debian.net is based off Lintian data and thus limited 
> in accuracy. A more accurate system would use the vcswatch table in 
> UDD.

Yep. My point is that maybe it'd make sense to make the checks more 
accurate before putting them in trends, especially since all the others 
are pretty precise.

> Still, I think having stats about CI file usage in packages is 
> interesting. If we do a campaign to have people fix their Salsa CI 
> from red to green, we are likely to see more people switch to using an 
> actual debian/salsa-ci.yml file. We don't have stats currently AFAIK 
> on how many uses Salsa CI without using an explicit file (i.e.  
> directly via config).

To be clear: I personally prefer explicit config files in source 
packages to hidden settings in Git forges. The only reason I don't do 
this now is that configuring via the Salsa UI requires one step, 
configuring with a config file requires both creating a file *and* using 
the web UI.

Am I unreasonable? Maybe :)

> This is what the tag says:
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/tags/u/uses-gbp-conf.tag
>
> It will miss gbp usage in cases where there is no file, and indeed 
> there are pacakges that have a gbp.conf only to use a single operation 
> from gbp without using for the full package lifecycle.

The Trends page does not say this. Where can I send a patch?

Bye!