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.) > > > > -- > > Matma Rex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
