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From: konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 07:34:35
Message-Id: CAJnmqwZVHsKWxLag3XhhL_AMQ6hpcv4Ar2Xku9f6oqj5cXSJVw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Facilitating user contributed ebuilds (Was: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project) by james
1 On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:48 PM, james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On 06/10/2016 10:09 PM, konsolebox wrote:
3 >>
4 >> What matters is the contribution, and the result. If you don't like
5 >> how a user makes a contribution, don't accept the pull request, or
6 >> don't merge his package. Simple. If you think that could turn out to
7 >> be just a waste of time for them, help them correct their issues; add
8 >> some documentations to enlighten them and give warnings about wrong
9 >> practices so they don't blame anyone, and so they can decide whether
10 >> they would want to contribute or not given the rules presented; but,
11 >> _don't_ make the steps mandatory. Don't make contributions
12 >> restrictive.
13 >
14 > Security is out the window with what you propose
15
16 Please elaborate why it's automatically like that.
17
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19 konsolebox