For what it's worth, Github recently implemented a feature to make contribution guidelines pretty clear to people who submit pull requests or issues: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
When someone goes to create an issue or submit a pull request, it links to the contribution instructions. This would be a good way to mention the appropriate channel for contribution, while still gaining the eyes on the project that Github provides. - Mjumbe On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Nicolas Silva <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jasper St. Pierre > >> Correct. But I'm unsure how a mirror is going to attract contributors. > > > > Well, github is part of a lot of people's workflow. It is nice to use, > > it makes it easy to fork project, and then have your own fork where > > you do your own stuff, your work being versionned on github even > > though you actually don't have commit access to the actual project's > > repository. > > Being able to do pull requests is certainly a plus for potential > > contributors, but it would be quite hard to integrate to the normal > > review/integration process. I think making it easy (like in > > github-easy) for people to fork the code and hack on it while it is > > being versionned by github (and not just a local clone) is already > > something that could help getting contributors. > > At mozilla a lot of people use the github mirror of mozilla-central > > (instead of the official hg repository) even though they extract patch > > files and submit them on bugzilla rather than doing pull requests. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nicolas Silva > > If we want to do what Mozilla is doing, somebody (module maintainers?) > has to do that, as I've said. This seems to me like it's the same > situation with downstream patches; nobody files them upstream, so they > don't get looked at. > > -- > Jasper > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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