On 08/02/12 17:25, Christoph Junghans wrote: > 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 > They are already thin since some time.
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