From: swt@techie.net 
  
 On Thu, 14 Aug 2025, Russ Allbery wrote: 
  
 > Jonas Smedegaard  writes: 
 > 
 >> Sounds like what you really wanted to say *in good faith* is that it is 
 >> blatantly embarrassing that default settings at Salsa make a false 
 >> impression towards noecomers that Debian generally acceepts drive-by 
 >> patching similar to Github and Gitlab. 
 > 
 > I'm not sure that Salsa is any different than GitHub here, honestly. These 
 > expectations are pretty unrealistic for GitHub as well. It's very common 
 > for people to do new releases of packages maintained on GitHub without 
 > looking at the open PRs. 
 > 
 > I think this is just a case of people assuming that everyone else does 
 > free software maintenance in the same way that they learned how to do it, 
 > which is very much not true. 
  
 Has anyone thought about adding something like "Your package has XX open 
 Merge Requests on Salsa" to the "action needed" section on the Package 
 Tracker?  That's something I almost always look at before doing a new 
 upload on a package. 
  
 Scott 
  
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