[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#443230: Bug#443230: Bug#443230: Enable net usershare

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> So based on a number of factors (my experiences with other packages like
> openldap and pam; Joey Hess's enlightening blog entries; past annoyances
> trying to debdiff packages with changed patches; drinking the Canonical
> kool-aid), I've recently become convinced that in-package patch systems are
> really not the way to go at all, and that distributed revision control,
> whereby we keep a full local copy of the upstream source plus per-patch
> feature branches that let us easily merge changes back and forth with
> upstream, is the Right Answer<tm>, and at that point naming patches is no
> longer an issue (though maybe naming branches is).
> 
> Obviously we're a long way from distributed revision control right now, and
> even farther from the "easily merge changes back and forth"; and I don't
> want to impose such changes on the rest of the team, I myself have been a


Well, my first and immediate reaction is that it is quite likely to
set the bar too high for me.

Most ppl in the team know about my personal reluctance to adopt those
neat things that are distributed VCS....not because they don't have
advantages (they have: skilled developers show this daily and I trust
you guys) but because they really put the prerequisite
skills much higher.

So, that rules me personnally out of some development jobs (which I
know I'm not doing the most optimal way: I'm aware of this and I
accept that) and I feel this is likely to rule other people out as
well.

I'm not entirely enthusiast about the current hype for adopting GIT
everywhere in Debian for these reasons. I have the somewhat fuzzy
feeling that this is too elitist to be fully consistent with the need
we have in the project to keep having new blood join us.

(as well as the need to keep the old blood also..:-))

Well, I should really blog about this, indeed, not just say it in a
closed mailing list.


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