On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:17 AM Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2019-01-25, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
>
> > By chance, I opened and read an automated mail from "GitBox" whose
> > subject line did not contain anything that would usually prompt a
> > reaction from me.[1]
>
> [Sidenote: I also find it annoying that the messages no longer contain
> the name of the repository since we've switched to gitbox]
>
+1
Gary
>
> > Could someone with a GitHub account please engage with the "unknown"
> > people and let them know how to contribute ("dev" ML subscription,
> > JIRA reports, etc.)?
>
> There is a CONTRIBUTING.md file in your repository that explicitly tells
> people to prefer JIRA but also explicitly talks about github pull
> requests. This is the boilerplate file created from the commons parent
> build but you can certainly change it to fit MATH's prefered way of
> operating.
>
> That being said, nobody is going to guarantee people will bother reading
> the document. Also some contributors simply prefer using the github
> interface and will rather not provide a patch at all than using diff and
> JIRA.
>
> You (as in "the MATH community") need to decide whether you'd like to
> forgo such contributions. It may very well be there are people who like
> to use the github UI (Gary seems to be one of them :-)
>
> > How can we make more prominent that GitHub is not our primary way to
> > interact about Apache projects. Or is it? Did I miss a change of
> > policy?
>
> It has been added as an option but each community is certainly free to
> use or do without that option.
>
> Stefan
>
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