Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-05 Thread Jonn Mostovoy
On May 5, 2016 11:26 AM, "Arseniy Seroka" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > I'm working with PR for more than 1,5 years. I saw maybe once that a person completely lost his interest. I just really didn't have time / intention to support what I was packaging :D > > O

Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-05 Thread Arseniy Seroka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm working with PR for more than 1,5 years. I saw maybe once that a person completely lost his interest. On 5 May 2016 12:13:45 GMT+03:00, zimbatm wrote: >This paragraph in the article sums the problem pretty much: > >> What’s even more frustrati

Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-05 Thread zimbatm
This paragraph in the article sums the problem pretty much: > What’s even more frustrating is that even though Jane provides feedback quickly, often contributors lose interest and/or forget about taking their Pull Requests the final step after initially contributing them. The apparent triviality o

Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-04 Thread Graham Christensen
I've found this post insightful (disregard the title) about how to not be too much of a stickler with new committers: https://blog.spreedly.com/2014/06/24/merge-pull-request-considered-harmful/ Graham > On May 4, 2016, at 6:26 AM, zimbatm wrote: > > Each contributor has his own motivations and

Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-04 Thread Arseniy Seroka
Nowadays probably almost everyone writes commit names that follow our rules. So it's not so hard to ping somebody to fix the name for the beauty sake of git's log. -- Sincerely, Arseniy Seroka On 4 May 2016 14:26:45 zimbatm wrote: Each contributor has his own motivations and every round w

Re: [Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-04 Thread Louis Taylor
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:26 PM, zimbatm wrote: > Each contributor has his own motivations and every round were we provide > feedback is another one where we might lose the contributor. He might run > out of energy, or have moved onto other things. > > Even after improving the CONTRIBUTING.md, nam

[Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

2016-05-04 Thread zimbatm
Each contributor has his own motivations and every round were we provide feedback is another one where we might lose the contributor. He might run out of energy, or have moved onto other things. Even after improving the CONTRIBUTING.md, naming of commits is still a really big friction to getting v