On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 07:53:58AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > Are you saying that people are writing and submitting patches via a > Web-based editor interface, and that you're recommending that people > consider _accepting_ those patches, when they haven't even been > _build-tested_ before submission (because you can't build-test - much > less actually _test_ - without the full source tree, which you'd obtain > by pulling the repo)? besides that github supports automated testing too, I think that you're too much thinking of (big|bigger) patches while I imagine that most of the patches created via this web editor are rather simple typo fixes and small correcttions and such. > […] as well as the "keep the only copy of your fork in > the same centralized location as the original code" mindset implied by a > don't-bother-to-clone-a-local-copy workflow - that leaves me > considerably less comfortable with the idea of people using github than > I used to be. which also becomes less troublesome if such changes are merged soon… To be clear, I do believe in owning ones infrastructures, but I also see how this encourages small contributions and makes them easy and I do see this as a good thing too. I think this is really great to lower the barrier for newcomers, to make them feel accepted and I too dive deeper eventually. -- cheers, Holger
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