On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > This has been debated in a variety of emails, issues, pull requests, chats, > and in person over the years. It'd take some time to collect all of those > instances for concise review. There is no one authoritative thread that > reached consensus that I know of. The email from Aaron that I quoted earlier > is the first time it was written down and there were no complaints on that > thread at that time. Thus, it's been the underlying written guideline now > for > 2 years.
I realize that this stuff above probably took a little while to compile, but that seems to me to be a good summary, that you can point people to, if they disagree, so that they can do the work needed to make arguments that haven't already been discussed fully. > I'm not sure what has caused it but we've recently had a > resurgence from reviewers requiring contributors to rebase their PRs (and > also to split PRs). It's such standard practice in other projects that I know of, it's not surprising to me that it keeps coming back. > And yes, there are many differences in the projects, and my proposal is > speculation, although we do have some data on contributor comparison among > the main SciPy projects. This issue was brought up at the SymPy BoF at SciPy > because one of the complaints we got during the BoF was from a user that > gave up because he was requested to rebase and he ended up in a git hole. He > hasn't contributed since. Yes, I'm sure that does happen from time to time. Cheers, Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5qm4u3OB32egYw%3DmPOU10YXX1i8LnE5HyWvpJSo7_5AHA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
