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  Msg # 979 of 1179 on ZZLI4422, Friday 8-14-25, 6:21  
  From: RUSS ALLBERY  
  To: OTTO@DEBIAN.ORG  
  Subj: Re: debian/watch version 5  
 From: rra@debian.org 
  
 Otto Kek€€l€€inen  writes: 
  
 > Could you please stop pushing directly on 'main' in 
 > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts and instead publish Merge 
 > Requests? 
  
 I really hope debian-devel is not going to turn into an ongoing discussion 
 of how the workflows of other maintainers are wrong. 
  
 For the record, I will not use MRs routinely for my own packages. I do not 
 like this workflow for my own changes, and I am going to continue to push 
 directly to the primary branch unless I need an MR for some reason (such 
 as triggering checks of a change that I think might fail checks). 
  
 > It would help avoid unnecessary mistakes from getting into the 
 > repository and perhaps be more collaborative in spirit. 
  
 I don't care if occasional mistakes get into my repositories. Worrying 
 about such things excessively is paralyzing and demoralizing and is a 
 recipe for doing even less volunteer work. 
  
 > Yesterday there was 4 commits on the same file within an hour. This 
 > typically don't happen when people prepare their work in a MR and it 
 > gets reviewed & merged only once you are actually done: 
  
 Or it results in the work not happening at all because people are too 
 annoyed by being told how they should do development to have fun, and 
 therefore they find something else more enjoyable to do with their free 
 time. 
  
 -- 
 Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) 

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