[PKG-Openstack-devel] Please don't remove gbp.conf from openstack packaging repos

[Thomas Goirand]

On 11/06/2017 11:02 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> It's always great to hear from you.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if you didn't continue to throw me and my employer
> under the bus.
> 
> We've gone above and beyond to collaborate with you. Prior to this past
> year we aligned with Debian as much as possible on OpenStack
> dependencies. I spent a significant amount of time a few cycles back
> dropping any delta from Ubuntu dependencies to align with Debian and we
> were contributing directly to alioth. Then you decided to move all of
> the Debian OpenStack packages out of alioth and work on packages in
> gerrit. I found the workflow to be far too slow, and it just didn't make
> sense for us, so we went back to contributing directly to Ubuntu.
> Unfortunately we have different strategies with our packages which makes
> collaboration difficult. pristine-tar has worked out well for us. Debian
> development is done in experimental and makes sync/merge process
> difficult for us (we finished pike 2 months ago). We don't prompt users
> with debconf.
> 
> I'm not sure what else to say. I may not reply to your next reply
> because I can't spend too many cycles on this. It's the same thing over
> and over and I need to focus on my work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Corey

Hi Corey,

How can we make it better for you then, so you're ok to restart working
like we did with Mitaka, ie: directly on the Git on Alioth?

Cheers,

Thomas