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On 08/02/12 17:25, Christoph Junghans wrote: |
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> 2012/2/8 Jan Marten Simons <marten@××××××××××××××××.de>: |
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>> Thomas Kahle: |
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>>>> Actualy you can send pull request even now =) Its git. See for example |
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>>>> linux kernel related work |
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>>> |
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>>> Sure, the New Yorker publishes short stories. In my experience this is |
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>>> a huge barrier for first time contributors. I'm seeing this with the |
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>>> offlineimap project which enforces the git-format-patch and mailing list |
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>>> pull-requests/review. There are people who just want to fix three lines |
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>>> in the doc but don't want to get black belts in git-fu. Then sometimes |
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>>> the maintainers won't implement the 3 line change to the doc themselves |
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>>> because they want proper credit for the original contributor, so after |
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>>> ~10 e-mails the original contributor tries git-email and fails to meet |
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>>> the standards. Another couple of e-mails are required do explain |
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>>> sign-off, reply-to headers, ... I'll stop here you get the point. |
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>>> |
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>>> IMHO using github or a self-hosted equivalent will make contributing |
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>>> easier. Clone, commit, and to some web-thingie for the pull-request. |
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>> +1 |
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> After reading all this, +1 for github. |
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> Maybe that would be a good point to switch to thin manifests. |
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> Christoph |
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> |
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They are already thin since some time. |
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