Hey, more than half a year has passed since the GNOME Github mirror was setup and we are incredibly happy that it has contributed positively to bring more contributors to the GNOME Project. While new contributors joined the GNOME community and started contributing through the usual workflow of submitting patches to Bugzilla many more made use of Pull Requests (PRs) which we explicitly requested not to use on the description of the mirror itself [1].
It's clear PRs might be seen as a handy and straightforward way to contribute code or documentation to a specific GNOME module especially for contributors that aren't familiar with GNOME's procedures of submitting patches. On this matter I contacted the Github team asking whether it was possible to remove PRs on our specific organization. Unfortunately at this moment of time there's no simple way for that to happen. Apparently we don't have a simple solution we could apply to solve the problem all together but the ideal way to start limiting the waste of contributions and patches on Github would be shipping a CONTRIBUTING.md file on each of the hosted repositories. Creating such file will automatically create a warning when the user will try to open a PR against one of the modules. An example of what the CONTRIBUTING.md file should contain: """The GNOME contributing guidelines do require patches to be forwarded to GNOME's Bugzilla instance hosted at https://bugzilla.gnome.org, as such please do not open Pull Requests (PRs) against any of the modules under the GNOME organization as they will be ignored. More information is available at the following wiki page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub"""; That said, I would like to invite anyone interested to include the sample file above on the module/s they contribute to. If you have a different opinion on how this should be managed, please follow up to this thread. Have an awesome day! [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
