Today John Spackman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I¹m glad to see that contribs are getting some new attention with the new
> page, but the way we have to go about it is way over complicated.
>
> In order to author a contrib, I must have a fork of your contrib-catalog in
> my Github account, clone it to my desktop, edit the Manifest (which is
> largely a duplicate of the one in my contrib.¹s repo), commit it, push it,
> and issue a pull request.
>
> When I want to release an update to my contrib, I have to download the
> Github tar ball to my contrib, checksum it, pull your catalog, edit, commit,
> push, issue a pull request.
>
> Sorry, but this is a ridiculous. There are precious few commits to contribs
> anyway, and this does absolutely nothing to help foster community spirit or
> encourage collaboration.
I agree it is rather complex.
OTOH, if someone were to sit down for an hour or two, I bet it
would not be too hard to come up with a script that automates the
process from the contributors point of view, without changeing any
of the underlying system.
cheers
tobi
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