Thomas Kahle: > > Actualy you can send pull request even now =) Its git. See for example > > linux kernel related work > > Sure, the New Yorker publishes short stories. In my experience this is > a huge barrier for first time contributors. I'm seeing this with the > offlineimap project which enforces the git-format-patch and mailing list > pull-requests/review. There are people who just want to fix three lines > in the doc but don't want to get black belts in git-fu. Then sometimes > the maintainers won't implement the 3 line change to the doc themselves > because they want proper credit for the original contributor, so after > ~10 e-mails the original contributor tries git-email and fails to meet > the standards. Another couple of e-mails are required do explain > sign-off, reply-to headers, ... I'll stop here you get the point. > > IMHO using github or a self-hosted equivalent will make contributing > easier. Clone, commit, and to some web-thingie for the pull-request.
+1 With regards, Dipl. Phys. Jan M. Simons Institute of Crystallography RWTH Aachen University
