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

[Holger Levsen]

Dear Chris,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 03:36:55PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> I'm sorry this appears to have upset you so much I'm afraid I'm
> somewhat struggling to see the full extent why.

and
 
> Naturally, if I thought this would have been a problem I would not have
> pushed the button.

sure, I never doubted that! :)

As I tried to explain was the combination of the immediate action
itself, coming from a discussion which was just started, combined with
explaining/announcing this action with a screenshot (which itself I'm
sure was ment 'funny' or geeky or some harmless/nice thing).

> Not only was the entire GitHub organisation empty (and was at least
> since the salsa migration), it was highly misleading and, naturally, we
> can recreate it within 60 seconds.

It has been that way for months, so I dont understand the perceived
hurry. Also that organisation still had members (which surely can be
added easily), so I think my main complaint is what I wrote above: the
combination of... (see above :)


anyhow, i dont hold any grudge or anything and would prefer to move on
with the question at hand:

> (I also would have thought that any solution to /potential/ duplication
> of issues between the Debian BTS and salsa would not be to introduce a
> _third_ entity anyway, 

2nd, we dont have issues on salsa enabled.

> and alas GitHub Issues cannot really be used
> without also duplicating the code there too, making the workflow for
> code even worse too. Indeed, this is what I was definitely finding
> before when we had a mirror.)

so let's get the mirror back and track upstream issues on github?

I was going to write "Or let's accept that diffoscope is a 'Debian
Reproducible Builds Project' and use the BTS or salsa for upstream bug
tracking too" but then I realized that we have the same problem with eg
the website, though there it's probably less a problem as we strive less
for drive-by contributors there.

But I think we want to move something distro agnostic, and salsa.d.o
is very much Debian centric, so I think we should look for something
else. I'd be fine to using github.com or gitlab.com or foobar.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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