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From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:11:47
Message-Id: 90f7956e-a065-7c07-09e6-42f507abc12b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 10/27/2016 05:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 >>> So, it is o.k. if you mention github in the Motivation section (but
5 >>> not five times!). However, github or pull requests should be mentioned
6 >>> neither in the Specification or the Rationale.
7 >
8 >> Why not in the rationale? It is the most straightforward way of
9 >> explaining why it's made optional like this.
10 >
11 > I just don't see the need there. The sentence:
12 >
13 > "Due to the non-obligatory nature of GitHub, they may be requested by
14 > the maintainers to use other contribution channels."
15 >
16 > could be replaced by:
17 >
18 > "Contributors using an unofficial channel may be requested by the
19 > maintainers to use other contribution channels."
20 >
21 > [BTW, is there a decent way to send diffs for a Mediawiki document?]
22 >
23 > Ulrich
24 >
25
26 IIRC, you could use USE="mediawiki" on dev-vcs/git and then use git to
27 interface with mediawiki
28
29 --
30 NP-Hardass

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