Hi,
both Geotools and GeoServer are starting to get their share of "problematic"
pull requests so I've started this thread (sorry for the cross post) to
discuss
if we can do anything about it.
Basically, in both projects we have seen at least one pull request so far
that was
coded by someone completely extraneous to the active developer community,
get no communication on the devel list, and sometimes resulting in patches
that cannot simply be committed due to a variety of problems.
I believe this is sad, especially since some of these patches contain a lot
of work,
and wondering what we could do about it.
Basically, the message to get out should be simple,
we should tell people that they need to discuss their grand plan on the
devel mailing list
before getting down to business, and that there are norms to be respected
and the like.
It is probably fair to assume these people are not experienced with
community development
and only look at GitHub, do the fork and go their own merry way... so the
only place
where they might get the message is on the project GitHub home.
Now, I've noticed that none of the projects have a README in the root that
would be
rendered by GitHub in the project home page, and GitHub is actually nagging
us about it.
Soo.. how about we dedicate that home page to provide just a few pointers
for
people finding us through GitHub:
- a set of links to where the community is (site, mailing lists)
- a quick set of directions to the contributors, in particular, a very
clear message that
going off your merry way and pop up with a large pull request later is
not a smart approach?
Just an idea...
Cheers
Andrea
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