[Rpm-ecosystem] rpm debugedit as a separate project?

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:57 PM Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:49:03AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > [...]
> >> I'm also not comfortable with the idea of having a part of RPM itself
> >> broken out and transferred to a project with subpar contribution
> >> practices. Most of Sourceware still relies on the email workflow for
> >> contribution of fixes and improvements. While you are the main
> >> contributor the last few years (and you don't use GitHub), you are not
> >> the only one, and you are the only one who uses the email workflow. If
> >> Sourceware projects had something like Pagure overlaid on their Git
> >> repos where they could also take pull requests properly, then I'd be
> >> more comfortable with it.
> >
> > On the contrary, I believe all potential debugedit contributors are
> > perfectly fine with email workflow used e.g. in elfutils.
> >
> >> If we really want to split it out, we could just split it out here in
> >> the rpm-software-management GitHub org. That's where popt lives
> >> too[1]. Also, popt is definitely used by more than just RPM stuff, so
> >> I don't know why you noted it as if it's a problem.
> >
> > I don't think the choice of hosting is important at this stage of
> > discussion, but you're well aware that github is out of the consideration
> > for the reason you mentioned above.
>
> I would be happy to try setting up pagure on sourceware even though I believe a simple email based approach encourages more discussion on patches. I am not against forges on principle. It might actually help with the buildbot integration. I don't really like github as a centralized proprietary forge however. It isn't even possible to create an account there without using non-free JavaScript.
>

I would be happy to help with this. :)

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