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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:15:59PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > 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.
> Let's try and enumerate some of the potential options here so we aren't
> lost or confusing each other in paragraphs (or otherwise letting this go
> on for too long):

thanks, this seems useful! :)

before answering, some questions about these scenarios:

>  a) Some hybrid where we have the code remain on salsa yet mirror it on
>     Github. Somewhat like the situation ~12 months ago.

where would we track the upstream issues in a.)?

>  b) Another frankenstein hybrid where we have the code remain on salsa
>     & mirror on Github, but move issue tracking to salsa.
> 
>  c) Make salsa the canonical location, enable issues on it and use it
>     for MRs. "Forward" issues upstream to salsa from the BTS.
> 
>  d) Make GitHub the canonical location and use it for PRs and issues.
>     Remove diffoscope entirely from salsa & "forward" issues to GitHub
>     from the BTS.
> 
>  e) Make GitLab the canonical location for both code and use it for MRs
>     and issues. Remove diffoscope entirely from salsa and forward
>     "issues" here from the BTS.

you mean a gitlab.com instance in e.)?

> I'm not *really* that fussed philosophically but as someone who has
> done a lot of the diffoscope coding over the past years I just want to
> remove as much day-to-day infrastructure overhead with respect to
> collating, collapsing, merging issues and suchforth.

nods, same here. plus I want it easy for new non-Debian contributors.
(Wish I'm sure you want too.)

> It is very easy to overloop what a big mental barrier and annoyance it
> is to have to do this extra work.

understood but what extra work exactly? of course we should automate
mirroring...


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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