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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:22:02
Message-Id: 20161027102140.4d681399.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:55:13 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6 > > I've started writing a GLEP to formalize and confirm the current
7 > > practices for committing third-party contributions into Gentoo. It's
8 > > meant mostly to clear the rules for pull requests. However, the rules
9 > > are generic enough to cover other contribution media -- patches
10 > > attached to bugs, etc.
11 >
12 > > Please review the following draft:
13 >
14 > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:TPC
15 >
16 > I am strictly opposed to making github or pull requests part of our
17 > official workflow or policy.
18 >
19 > So, it is o.k. if you mention github in the Motivation section (but
20 > not five times!). However, github or pull requests should be mentioned
21 > neither in the Specification or the Rationale.
22
23 Why not in the rationale? It is the most straightforward way of
24 explaining why it's made optional like this.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny
29 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>