On 01/30/2017 02:14 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > 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. Indeed, if done right, pull requests are built in travis and the result is being displayed on the pull requests' page. > 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. Exactly - it is easy to make and receive contributions and much faster to send and handle them than using the BTS > I think this is really great to lower the barrier for newcomers, to make > them feel accepted and I too dive deeper eventually. +1 Not only newcomers, but also the typical sysadmin with no spare time. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
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