Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New "Accept Github contributions" metadata flag

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 11:58 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:48 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 15:36 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > Joonas Niilola wrote:
> > > > some of you may already have seen the new packages.gentoo.org page,
> > > >   https://packages.gentoo.org/
> > >
> > > I had not seen that - that's wonderful!
> > >
> > > I would just request that /packages/ is removed from the start of
> > > package URLs. I understand how this makes request routing more
> > > complicated, but I consider it a significant usability improvement.
> > >
> > >
> > > ..anyway:
> > >
> > > > I'm suggesting of adding a new metadata flag to our Wiki's
> > > > User:/Project: page which then prints a message to this page saying
> > > > whether the maintainer (be it project or user), "accepts" or "deals
> > > > with" Github contributions. The wording can be a bit better, but it'd be
> > > > there to **notify** our **contributors** whether their time and effort
> > > > will most likely be wasted making a pull request for this particular
> > > > maintainer.
> > >
> > > I think this is a very good feature.
> > >
> > > If I ever do become a proper Gentoo developer I will certainly not spend
> > > any time on anything to do with GitHub, and in my current position of
> > > occasional contributor I don't either. The workflow imposed by GitHub
> > > isn't good and it's important to demonstrate other methods.
> > >
> >
> > Read: it's important to slap users to satisfy developer's wannabes.
>
> This sentence makes no sense, but it seems to be saying something rude.
>
> Would you like to clarify?
>

If user puts effort to make a good contribution, the developer shouldn't
be rejecting it to 'demonstrate other methods'.  This is the horrible
attitude that kills the project.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny