Hi, > Are discussions at Salsa preserved years down the line?
I don't think there is any special concern to suspect that Salsa or any other official Debian service would seize to exist abruptly? GitHub.com and GitLab.com has done a pretty good job at hosting contents for years and years, hopefully Salsa can too. If another service some day replaces it, I am confident that contents can be migrated. We already successfully migrated git.debian.org to salsa.debian.org. Also note that the contents that really matter is the git repositories themselves. The Merge Request feature is not intended to be a place of permanent documentation. It is just a tool to facilitate fast and accurate code review and efficient feedback among multiple participants, and efficient publication and re-review of code. All permanent documentation should to in inline comments, in READMEs in the repository or when explaining specifically *why* a change was made, it should be in the git commit message, and easily accessible via git blame. If people have a need to read MR discussions, then the git commit messages or git contents weren't done properly.
