Move source code to git

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

Move the source code to gitlab or github, so contributing is trivial and fixes are encouraged to be made upstream.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

For example, Debian has 60 patches applied to hplip:
https://sources.debian.org/patches/hplip/3.21.2+dfsg1-2/

That is insane! Make it easy to contribute to hplip, and all those issues will be fixed on the original code.

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

HP are presumably using version control internally.

Rather than go over their heads and maintain a separate repository, ideally they would put one up themselves. Has someone tried asking them, instead of mocking them here?

Using a git repository of hplip releases in order to track changes relevant to patches carried by Debian is another thing, but that's up to Debian - I'm sure they have tools for updating patches when a new release tarball comes out, many projects work that way so they'd be used to it I would think.

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

Sorry, I see that launchpad is actually HPLIP's official bug-tracker - I thought you were reporting a bug against the Ubuntu package specifically. So this is the right place to make this request (I would still advise against the mockery though!).