Just wanted to chime in as a "could be" Qt dev. Lowering the barrier to
entry by allowing use of familiar tools could be a benefit IF you're
looking for more contributions. I'm sure there's effort involved to
allow this, and maybe it's not practical in the end, but perhaps worth
considering/looking into.
You could look at it as one step less than what's suggested in the
Contributor Guidelines under "A Shortcut...":
"If you have only a minor contribution to make and find the process out
of proportion for that, you may simply attach a patch to a bug report.
However, the more of the necessary steps you defer to the code's
maintainers, the less likely is your contribution to be integrated in a
timely manner."
I did just that recently, submitted a short patch to the docs generation
system via a bug report. Not a big deal, but it could easily have been
an actual code commit w/out the extra step of someone needing to process
the bug and apply the patch themselves... and some code got mixed in/up
in the process so the final change was actually a bit less "clean" than
what I had posted.
This could also be a "gateway method" for bringing the more serious
contributors into the actual gerrit-based process. ;-)
2¢,
-Max
On 3/10/2020 10:40 AM, Cristian Adam wrote:
Hi,
With the “GitHub issues” E-Mail thread we made sure the Issues are gone
from the projects.
What about Pull requests?
For example qtbase <https://github.com/qt/qtbase/pulls> has 7 pull
requests. Usually people point out that
the Qt project uses a different collaboration method:
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines
What stops us from accepting the contributions via GitHub?
Is it:
1. The CLA
2. Qt Account
For the CLA one can simply add an instance of:
https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant
And it’s only one click away.
When I contributed to vcpkg, the process of signing the Microsoft
CLA was like that, one click.
Regarding Qt Account, maybe one can use the GitHub account to
create a Qt Account via openid.
With GitHub actions (or Azure Pipelines, like vcpkg) we can also validate
the pull requests.
We should encourage developers to contribute to Qt, not having to learn
how to use gerrit, and using a workflow that they are familiar with, should
be a plus.
Cheers,
Cristian.
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