[pkg-go] Asking upstream to tag repositories

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 2:47:58 PM AEDT Alexandre Viau wrote:
> Heh. Actually, it was very easy. My template is two sentences.

Thank you for taking time to educate our upstreams. :)
Great work.

I've been doing that as well with bugs like:

  https://github.com/square/go-jose/issues/83

where you can find my template.

I always try to mention Debian Upstream Guide and include links to resources 
with information about versioning.

In my experience filing those bugs often helps but I've also seens some cases 
of resistance...

IMHO next stage would be to convince upstreams to vendor tagged versions of 
dependencies contrary to prevailing practice of bundling random snapshots of 
"master". There are some royal abusers of this practice like many projects of 
Docker with inconsistent interdependencies responsible for most time 
consuming troubles of building Docker releases...

-- 
Cheers,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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