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On 02/08/2012 01:31 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
> fbissey@... писал 2012-02-07 23:52:
>> Quoting Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@g.o>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are contemplating the idea of switching the official science overlay
>>> to an external repository such as github. Here are some of the
>>> advantages we would like to
>>> get:
>>> 1. easier to contribute
>>> 2. specific issue tracker
>>> 3. wiki
>>>
>> Other people have made useful comments already. The only point that I
>> think
>> is interesting about github is the possibility to clone the overlay
>> and have
>> pull requests.
>> Effectively that means people can contribute without ever getting infra
>> involved and an external contributor can send a pull request even if
>> they are
>> not a member of the github science team.
>>
>> Francois
>
> Actualy you can send pull request even now =) Its git. See for example
> linux kernel related work
You can also git-format your patches and send it using git-am, gpg sign
them and sed out typos on the fly. The point is that's not exactly
simpler for someone who's doing his/her first commit than clicking a
button on github :)
Cheers,
Kacper
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