Hello everyone, Several projects in Apache (the cool kids on the block like SPARK, flink etc.) have moved to github's pull request model instead of the patch and review board approach and more are moving towards that approach. I personally find this approach much better and some of the advantages are as follows
1. *Familiarity* *-* Due to the popularity of github in open source projects lot more users are familiar with the pull request model than the patch based approach. 2. *Ease - *Users don't have to create a review board request and at the same time attach the patch to JIRA also. Committers can easily commit a patch with the click of a button. 3. *Conflicts - *Users get a real time visibility in whether their contribution has conflicts. 4. *Attribution - *Github's Pull request model allows a stronger attribution for the contribution as the author of the patch is the user who submitted the pull request and not the committer who committed this to master. This will require some preparation work to be done beforehand for example pre commit builds etc. to be configured. If no one has any concerns then I can start figuring out the details and setting infrastructure for it. Thoughts, suggestions and tips are welcome :) Cheers Ajay Yadava
