[PKG-Openstack-devel] Migration of packaging development workflow to OpenStack project

[James Page]

Hi Team

As you may (or may not) know, Thomas has been working on enabling package
build and publication processes in the OpenStack project infrastructure,
with the intent of migrating *all* packaging development workflow under
pkg-openstack to a git/gerrit based workflow.

This means that day-to-day packaging changes, currently done directly in
git on alioth, will all be done using git/gerrit, inline with other
OpenStack projects.

I'm concerned that, to me at least, it feels like this plan has never been
formally ratified by the members of pkg-openstack in Debian.

I've been fairly vocal on the openstack-dev ML that I don't think this is
the right direction to go in (see [0]), as I feel it moves packaging and
distribution work outside of either Debian or Ubuntu, resulting in more
hops to get work done and uploaded to either distribution. I still stand by
this sentiment, and feel that this change is not been driven by the team as
a whole.

Thoughts?  Is this something that all team members feel is a change for the
better and is something they can stand behind?  I appreciate that adding
things like code review and CI are all helpful to development, but I don't
think that doing that all outside of Debian is the right approach.

Cheers

James

[0]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-June/thread.html#65298
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