On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 07:20:29AM +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
On Fri, 2025-08-15 at 00:23 +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:Opening an MR without having contacted me *prior to the fact* is the definition of a code dump. I do not care about code, I can very well write it myself in the first place.[...]If sending an e-mail is too much for them, well, too bad, they were not all that interested in improving the package in the first place to stop at such a trivial requirement.A principled opposition to apply patches or fix issues because the author did not jump to an arbitrary set of hoops set up by a maintainer seems like a bad idea. Enough security issues were not fixed or only fixed much later because vendors insisted on such things.
I agree with Ansgar here and would like to ask Antoine if he also ignores MRs that have a friendly and verbose explanation in the MR comment or in the commit messages.
There is more than one way to do it, it's a matter of style, and noone shouold expect other people to do it exactly in the style of the other side. I have seen MR submitters who scold repo owners for having their own workflow (in good faith!), and I have seen a repo owner who flat out says to ignore MRs completely if the submitter does not mit birds and bees inside an out-of-band message.
I think that both approaches are not as good as we could do. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421