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On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 15:36 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Joonas Niilola wrote: |
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> > some of you may already have seen the new packages.gentoo.org page, |
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> > https://packages.gentoo.org/ |
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> I had not seen that - that's wonderful! |
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> I would just request that /packages/ is removed from the start of |
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> package URLs. I understand how this makes request routing more |
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> complicated, but I consider it a significant usability improvement. |
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> |
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> ..anyway: |
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> > I'm suggesting of adding a new metadata flag to our Wiki's |
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> > User:/Project: page which then prints a message to this page saying |
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> > whether the maintainer (be it project or user), "accepts" or "deals |
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> > with" Github contributions. The wording can be a bit better, but it'd be |
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> > there to **notify** our **contributors** whether their time and effort |
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> > will most likely be wasted making a pull request for this particular |
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> > maintainer. |
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> I think this is a very good feature. |
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> If I ever do become a proper Gentoo developer I will certainly not spend |
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> any time on anything to do with GitHub, and in my current position of |
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> occasional contributor I don't either. The workflow imposed by GitHub |
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> isn't good and it's important to demonstrate other methods. |
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Read: it's important to slap users to satisfy developer's wannabes. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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