Bug#910541: diffoscope: filing bugs on diffoscope is cumbersome for non-Debian contributors

[Chris Lamb]

severity 910541 normal
thanks

Dear Holger,
 
> I just gave a small presentation about diffoscope at the mirage.io
> hackretreat (which was well received) which resulted in people
> wanting to file bugs against diffoscope, which turned out to be "complicated"

Completely, 100%, agree.

(Adjusting severity only because important severity bugs are treated
somewhat different in some interfaces, but agree this is more
severe than "just another" wishlist entry.)

> - the project on salsa has issues disabled (but would require a login on
>   salsa anyway), still filing bugs in a webbrowser is something many
>   people want to do today, so I think maybe we should enable issues?

No strong objection to the principle except that we would then have
some duplication between the two trackers.

I'm thinking specifically of those times when I'd like to pick up on a
previous issue, but then would need to "mentally merge" two lists of
bugs, filtering any potential duplicates, etc.

Do we have any ideas to limit this? One rather brutal way of doing this
would be to insist that diffoscope-on-the-BTS only had Debian-specific
issues and salsa has everything else, forcing people to refile? Or that
salsa is a superset of the BTS & just try and remember to file
everything that arrives in the BTS to.. etc.

Anyone have experience elsewhere that can help?

> - the link "Bugs and feature requests" on https://diffoscope.org just
>   points to https://bugs.debian.org/src:diffoscope

(Let's fix that when this issue is fixed; it would just need updating
and/or expanding)

> - there is still https://github.com/ReproducibleBuilds but thats empty, 
>   so noone could file issues there.

Well, this one is easily "fixed":

  https://i.imgur.com/vXbuKYU.png


Best wishes,

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