On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:54:56 +0200 Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I understand the takeover concern, it is a valid point. If I become > the maintainer of application X, which was accepting pull requests, > and I don't want to have a github account, I either have to create an > account, find somebody on the team who wants to monitor pull > requests, or change the project's policy. > I still think that in this case the benefits on the advertisement > outweight the problems (a change of policy due change of > maintainership and nobody in the team wanting a github account). > > On Saturday, September 19, 2015 05:36:09 PM Martin Graesslin wrote: > > Pullrequests in the github are more than a way to submit a patch. > > It's also code review. At the point where this would happen, part > > of the community is excluded from participating in the code review > > process. Even more part of our code actually moves to github. > > Previous versions of the patch are then only available through > > github infrastructure. > > Any patch which needs any kind of serious reviewing will still have > to go through reviewboard, nobody would use github's interface for > that. How many these patches are clearly depends on the type of the > project. > > For me a pull request is just a great opportunity to say: > "hey, thanks a lot for your patch, I just pushed it to the main > repository and it works great! If you want to continue submitting > patches, I would suggest you get a KDE account by registering here > <link>, so you have proper access to all KDE tools that help us in > our development" +1 > > while rejecting them autmatically isjust a great way to drive > potential contributors away... > > Bye, > -Riccardo > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- Rajeev Bhatta <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
