Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 10/2/19 8:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:31:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> ○ Every changes to dist-git is done via pull-requests
>> Erm, no thank you. Pull requests are a terrible workflow.
>
> It's definitely the winning workflow in the open source world today,
> particularly for smaller and drive-by contributions, which I think we'd
> like to encourage.
It's an awesome workflow for those cases. Not so much when you are the
maintainer of said piece.
In the drive-by contributor role I've always found pull requests
unwieldy. I thought they were intended for frequent contributors or
project members, for whom the added clicking might be a small burden
compared to all the work they do for the project.
Perhaps pull requests are convenient for a maintainer who receives them
in large numbers – I've only ever received one pull request so I can't
judge – but I don't see how they would encourage drive-by contributions.
If you want to encourage drive-by contributions, then you should make
it easy to submit a patch without first registering an account, forking
a project and so on.
Björn Persson