2012/2/8 Jan Marten Simons <[email protected]>: > 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 > After reading all this, +1 for github.
Maybe that would be a good point to switch to thin manifests. Christoph -- Dr. Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ > With regards, > > Dipl. Phys. > Jan M. Simons > > Institute of Crystallography > RWTH Aachen University >
