Hello, I'm trying to see how one could contribute to NetBeans without a GitHub account.
To see what's going on one needs to also subscribe to [email protected] where messages about new pull requests and comments are posted. PROBLEM 1: There's no way to comment on a PR from the mailing list. In the email I see this note: > This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. > To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the > URL above to go to the specific comment. So, we need some robot or something to act as a proxy (we had something like this for Slack which was commenting on the #netbeans IRC channel) and add our comments to GitHub too. PROBLEM 2: How do I see the PR patch? The notification gives me the PR URL but I don't see the repository/branched used so I cannot jump into the terminal to do a `git checkout`. Both of these problems belong to Apache Git Services, I'll contact them too. Suggestion: It would be good to use https://reviews.apache.org/r/ too, not GitHub PR exclusively. Allowing inclusive ways of contributing is going to be important long-term. GitHub should just be one venue where we engage with the community and contributors but we should have other workflows in place, preferably that depend on Apache infrastructure only. --emi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
