Re: [PATCH v1] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

> On 09 Jun 2017, at 18:18, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Many open source projects use github.com for their contribution process.
>> Although we mirror the Git core repository to github.com [1] we do not
>> use any other github.com service. This is unknown/unexpected to a
>> number of (potential) contributors and consequently they create Pull
>> Requests against our mirror with their contributions. These Pull
>> Requests become stall [2]. This is frustrating to them as they think we
>> ignore them and it is also unsatisfactory for us as we miss potential
>> code improvements and/or new contributors.
>> 
>> GitHub offers a way to notify Pull Request contributors about the
>> contribution guidelines for a project [3]. Let's make use of this!
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/git/git
>> [2] https://github.com/git/git/pulls
>> [3] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository/
> 
> It would be good to have some instructions, but instead of warning
> people off we could just point them to submitgit.herokuapp.com
> 
> You can submit patches to this list using that, and if someone's
> trying to submit a pull request they might be much happier using that.

Agreed! I wasn't sure if this solution is still active/maintained by Roberto!

- Lars