On Mon, 13 May 2013 08:32:05 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 00:24:09 +0200 > Alexander Berntsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13/05/13 00:21, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > There is no problem if github is only used for hosting, but if it > > > is the primary point of contact, or if pull requests are accepted, > > > then github is also writing to repositories, and merge commits are > > > enforced for all external contributions. That does not scale at > > > all. > > > > Users can still send patches via email even if the project is hosted > > on GitHub. And for the record I have not had problems with messy > > merges when commiting pull requests. > > Once I was asked if I could look into a package. I spent a day writing > a couple of ebuilds including fixing the build system of the target > package. When I presented a first git-format-patch I was ask to do a > github pull request instead. So I asked why not git-am? The answer was > - don't be a *beep*. As a result the package never got fixed and I > outright ignore any repo not hosted on Gentoo infra.
Once I found a bug in an ebuild. But unfortunately that ebuild was stored in a CVS repo, so etc etc. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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