David Duncan davdunc@gmail.com writes:
it also appears that issues have prevented direct contribution based on some sort of misconfiguration in the repository, though it sounds like this is fixed as of this discussion. It still speaks to more than a year of complication in contribution. Is Neal really the only one who was impacted by the inability to submit a PR?
So far, that's the only case we're aware of, and we only learned yesterday that they considered using it during that interval. Anyway, it has been fixed for a while - for instance, Zbignew has been waiting on me to merge a pending PR to drop our use of "which" :)
(Javier (co-maintainer) has a post I believe touching on this as well, but it's stuck in the moderation queue right now.)
I want to emphasize again that PRs are not the only venue of communication with maintainers, nor are they the only way to send us code (attachments on bugzilla, patches upstream, patches to source-git-likes, ...), nor is sending code the only way to contribute (investigating issues, translations, ...).
I think that creating choice is the right response
I don't agree that choice is inherently superior, especially when it creates more work to support. For a more eloquent explanation of this, I refer you to ajax's post: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861....
Be well, --Robbie