[git-buildpackage] The most optimal gbp workflow?

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:21:00AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, I have updated
> https://pad.debian.net/p/Role_model_README.source.md accordingly. Is
> this perhaps now the most optimal version?
> 
> ...
> > We have `/usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/examples/gbp-upload` that
> > combines sign, tag, push and upload.
> 
> Looking at https://sources.debian.org/src/git-buildpackage/0.9.35/examples/gbp-upload/
> and other scripts in the directory I see they are mostly just wrappers
> for dput && gbp tag && git push. If there was a direct "gbp upload"
> command that users could trust will always do they right thing, I
> could recommend it, but right now I don't feel it makes sense to
> recommend an additional script as it adds yet another layer of
> abstraction, and it is hosted in folder "examples" which does not

gbp-pq started out as example as well, I expect gbp-upload to emerge
into a regular command at some point.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> instill confidence that it is something people should actually use, at
> most just read and copy/modify for their own use. If we ask people to
> take a script and modify it to their own use, then its not really
> simplifying the process.. I hope to get to a point where there is just
> one README.source.md that for a given package is *the* correct way (or
> at least the most optimal and recommended way) to handle that
> packages' lifecycle.
>