Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions

[M. J. Everitt]

On 28/10/16 16:41, M. J. Everitt wrote:
> On 28/10/16 08:34, Daniel Campbell wrote:
>> On 10/27/2016 11:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:49:55 -0700
>>> Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/27/2016 06:13 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>> To be honest, after writing it all down, I started to get the feeling
>>>>> it isn't necessary after all. The initial idea (and what motivation was
>>>>> supposed to mean) was that all previous attempts failed because they
>>>>> either tried to be too specific, force too many style rules or just
>>>>> never got necessary 'global' to reach all affected parties.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd dare say this GLEP ended up confirming 'third party contributions'
>>>>> are not that special, we don't need special teams to handle them or
>>>>> special rules to cover them.
>>>>>
>>>>> So yes, it would probably be enough to put such a simple statement
>>>>> somewhere. The problem is: where? ;-) GLEP seemed like a
>>>>> straightforward solution to make it global.
>>>>>
>>>> Could it be relevant on the git workflow page? I consult that on a
>>>> regular basis (it's even in my watch list), and accepting/pushing
>>>> contributions seems like it's right in line with our expected git workflow.
>>>>
>>>> Just a thought. I like where you're going with the idea.
>>> Anything put on the git workflow page automatically becomes rejected by
>>> most of the developers and users for being a whim of hasufell ;-).
>>>
>> That seems unproductive. What has been proposed in its stead?
>>
> I thought monsieurp had written a git flow page for users of the g-p-m
> project as they are chief users of this process. Is that only under the
> G-P-M wiki page .. might be worth doing some harmonisation there and/or
> poking the g-p-m folks?
>
> MJE
>
FYI here's the page I was thinking of ...
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Github