And to follow-up on that point more concretely, I created an example pull request with the changes to the asciidoc.vim file that were posted.
https://github.com/mojavelinux/asciidoc-mirror/pull/1 (I may not have gotten the patch right, which further demonstrates how important it is that the patch be made and followed by the contributor, so it's the right patch). -Dan On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > As a case in point, consider the updates to the vim syntax files that were > just recently posted to the list. Contributions like those would be much > more manageable as pull requests...and likely a lot more natural for the > contributor. Just something to keep in mind. > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Regardless of where the canonical source code repository is located, I >> think there is tremendous benefit in having a mirror on GitHub. I've >> observed first hand how much visibility GitHub brings to a project. The >> obvious benefit is that you can say "find us on GitHub", which is a >> surprisingly powerful. It also makes it so easy to see the activity and >> history of a project, more so than any other web-based viewer I've ever >> come across. Finally, it provides a very elegant way to share patches >> (either through pull requests or just the "forks" themselves). That >> definitely beats sending patch files through a mailinglist. Do not >> underestimating the impact this can have. >> > > -Dan > > > -- > Dan Allen > Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action > Registered Linux User #231597 > > http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > > -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
