> So, why am I not trying to learn Gerrit or try to submit patches?  Because 
> it's not worth my time.  The interface is so far outside of what I'm used to, 
> and it's just so touchy.  By comparison, GitHub has a solid, no frills, Mac 
> app that handles all of the important stuff.  And, even when I committed to 
> GitHub by command line, there was no way I could "Merge branch 'master' of 
> ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core" by miss-typing a re-base 
> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/37684/>.

Thank you for sharing this view. This was my fear and it is useful to
get this view.

To me I would be happy having more contributions regardless of
quality. A contribution in itself is wonderful as it shows an interest
in the work that is being done and a will to help with that work. We
should be striving to mentor any developer who contributes poor
quality code not see this as a negative thing. To me this is what is
so beautiful about open source development - we get the opportunity to
create awesome things and create awesome developers.

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