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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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>> 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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>> 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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Dr. Christoph Junghans |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ |
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> With regards, |
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> Dipl. Phys. |
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> Jan M. Simons |
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> |
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> Institute of Crystallography |
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> RWTH Aachen University |
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