[pkg-go] Asking upstream to tag repositories

[Martín Ferrari]

Hey,

On 29/03/16 15:05, Alexandre Viau wrote:

> 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.

This seems actually very surprising to me. Looks like most of these
communities don't believe in releases and would easily refuse. Maybe you
should share your template so we all can have the same success :)

> 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.

+1

> 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 :).

Definitely, currently it is a big mess.

> 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.

+1 too! I think there is somewhere some page explaining how to be a good
upstream.

Ah, here it is: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Releases_and_Versions

BTW, it seems we never got around to implement the policy changes
discussed a couple of months ago?


-- 
Martín Ferrari (Tincho)