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Oh, yes. This seems like nothing short of necessary for the long term viability of the project. I really hope this effort succeeds, thank you to everyone pushin
by Valodim 10mo ago
Oh, yes. This seems like nothing short of necessary for the long term viability of the project. I really hope this effort succeeds, thank you to everyone pushing this!
- boldcode69 10mo ago[dead]
- jonhohle 10mo agoYou might think, but here we are at the end of 2025 and this is still a WIP. I don’t think it’s a bad move, but it also seems like they were getting by with patches and tarballs.
- agwa 10mo agoI can't find it now but I recently saw a graph of new Debian Developers joining the project over time and it has sharply declined in recent years. I was on track to becoming a Debian Developer (attended a couple DebConfs, got some packages into the archive, became a Debian Maintainer) but I ultimately burned out in large part because of how painful Debian's tooling makes everything. Michael Stapelberg's post about leaving Debian really rings true: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/ https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin... Debian may still be "getting by" but if they don't make changes like this Git transition they will eventually stop getting by.