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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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..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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//Peter |