[pkg-go] Asking upstream to tag repositories

[Alexandre Viau]

Hello pkg-go!

I think this subject was brought in the past: we face the issue that the
Go community does not tag repositories.

Whether that is a good thing or not in general is the subject for
another discussion, but I think that we can agree that it is best for
Debian when upstream tags repositories, simply because its simpler for
us to notice new updates trough our watch system.

I have recently started doing some cleanup in my packages and I have
taken the opportunity to open a bug to upstream whenever they didn't
tag. In total, I must have opened atleast 35 bugs.

I was pleasantly surprised by upstream's reaction. Most of them
understand that it can be helpful and only **very few** have refused to tag.

Therefore, I would like to encourage all of you to take the time to open
a bug whenever you upload a new version of an un-tagged project.

When looking at my DDPO page, I feel much more in control than last
week, simply because I have more vision of what is going on :).

Maybe it could also be a good idea to post a statement on a sub-page of
the pkg-go alioth website that we can link to upstream explaining why
tagging go packages makes sense for projects like Debian.

Cheers,

-- 
Alexandre Viau
aviau at debian.org

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