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

[Holger Levsen]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > before answering, some questions about these scenarios:
> To be clear, these aren't the full enumeration of possible scenarios
> nor a request that we choose one or vote, simply a way of trying to
> short-cut exchanging paragraphs of text and confusing each other.

sure

> > >  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.)?
> (I guess the BTS to differentiate it from 'b'? *shrug*)

right

> > e.)
> I was immediately thinking of using the existing gitlab.org instance
> but feel free to split if you feel like it. (The idea of maintaining our
> own Gitlab instance does not sound like a particularly good use of our
> time.)

no, no, I absolutly dont want us to run gitlab...

(gitlab.org these days btw redirects to gitlab.com... :)

> The extra work I am refering to is, from experience, the extra cognitive
> and remarkably-stressful load when you have 3+ avenues for people to file
> issues, bugs and PRs, etc.  (Mirroring was automated before.)

I'm not sure I understand. First, its 2 avenues, not 3+. And then we
will either fix upstream issues submitted to the Debian BTS immediatly
or immediatly forward those issues to our upstream tracker, which will
be the canonical location for (upstream bugs).

Speaking of stressful, I rather find it stressful to see all those
comment notifications on irc *and* via mail, kind of similar how I find
it stressful to be cc:ed when I'm subscribed anyway.  But then I also
know that some people find those useful (to receive) or easy (to send
("my mailprogramm does those cc:s automatically")) so I try to live with
them.

In a (somewhat) similar way I think we should make it very easy to
submit bugs and I believe the easiest way for most people today is
github.com.

But maybe I'm wrong and Arnout is right when he says that creating a
salsa account is easy too.

Finally, maybe this is something we should revisit in Paris, when there are
many non-Debian contributors around?


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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