On May 17, 2012, at 10:57 PM, David Nalley wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:42 PM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: >> I'd like to document the process for Apache CloudStack, as well...for this >> one I sent a pull request to CloudStack on github, but I suspect that >> process is going to change in the coming weeks... > So a couple of comments. > > We can mirror our ASF repo to github, and accept patches to pull > requests apparently. (For those I misinformed privately about this > fact - I apologize - at the time I was unaware of github mirroring.) > > But I think we should also have patches sent to the list via git > format-patch - and perhaps a few other ways. I am personally keen on > preserving proper attribution in git log, so a diff isn't quite > enough.
Concur. How has that been working so far? Seems too easy for people to send a pull request and just expect that's it, versus specifying that changes will only be accepted via patches sent to the dev list or to the maintainers - I'm thinking about how the Linux kernel does this, although that might be overkill...
