Yes, lots of bad content might be submitted, but usually it is easy and
quick to spot, and could become good content over time. What I think we
should follow is the model that most other big open source projects follow,
which does seem to have lower barrier of entry.


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-03-08 2:20 PM, "Bartosz Dziewoński" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:07:18 +0100, Antoine Musso <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess the whole idea of using GitHub is for public relation and to
> >> attract new people.  Then, if a developer is not willing to learn
> >> Gerrit, its code is probably not worth the effort of us integrating
> >> github/gerrit.  That will just add some more poor quality code to your
> >> review queues.
> >
> >
> > This a hundred times. I manage a few (small) open-source projects at
> GitHub, and most of the patches I get are not even up to my standards (and
> those are significantly lower than WMF's ones).
> >
> > Submitting a patch to gerrit and even fixing it after code review is not
> that hard. (Of course any more complicated operations like rebasing do
> suck, but you hopefully won't be doing that with your first patch.)
> >
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> > Matma Rex
> >
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> Making it easier to contribute is always going to cause more lower quality
> content to be submitted, since the unmotivated arent weeded out. But there
> are plenty of good people that also would get weeded out. I think this
> debate has a lot in common with the perenial debates on wikipedia to futher
> restrict anons and non autoconfirmed users.
>
> -bawolff
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