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Hey, |
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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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and the new maintainer pages in it, |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/maintainers |
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If you open a maintainer page, |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/maintainer/juippis@g.o |
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you can see a tab called "pull requests" there, |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/maintainer/juippis@g.o/pull-requests |
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with description saying: |
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"If you also like to help the Gentoo project, you can consider sending a |
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Pull Request via GitHub. |
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Before doing so, you might want to take a look at the wiki page." |
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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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This note would then be displayed in every package the maintainer is |
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assigned to, |
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https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-libs/rlottie/pull-requests |
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I'd imagine a simple switch in Wiki could do it. No need to add anything |
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to ::gentoo repo. The switch can be visible in User:/Project: page, but |
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it doesn't have to. Unspecified metadata flag would print something like |
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"This maintainer hasn't specified whether they handle Github pull |
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requests. If you wish to help using Github, please also open a bug prior |
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to that and link your pull request commit to that bug (add link to |
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glep-66 here)". Or just default it to "No." |
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Note that the bug text could always be displayed nevertheless, since |
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that is still the main channel to communicate with maintainers. |
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It's undeniable we get a lot of pull requests and unfortunate that many |
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are left without any attention to rot. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pulls |
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I think this would serve both parties - devs and contributors, with |
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little to no cost. |
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-- juippis |
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