Re: Why are patches submitted via email?

[Matthew Sexton]

On 7/18/23 07:39, Kusoneko wrote:

Jul 18, 2023 07:09:56 Adam Labus <adam.labuz...@gmail.com <mailto:adam.labuz...@gmail.com>>:

    Hi, quick question:
    Why aren't pull requests made directly on gitlab/somewhere on the
    site, but instead are sent over email. Even from the human aspect, I
    think most devs want to track their "ego points" in the form of how
    many merges they made.

    Or is it just me who is doing it wrong and I should put patches into
    comments instead?

That depends entirely on the maintainer of the AUR package, there is no "standard" for contributing patches to the maintainer. Some provide a Git{hub,lab,ea} repository for their AUR packages, some don't. Most people who decide to contribute to the maintainer tend to either send the patch by email or put it in a pastebin/gist and put the link in the comments.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/pacman-...@lists.archlinux.org/thread/XAMX6OEIQZM5BC37MUOPNFZ2RENWYMKU/

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/515

You also have to remember the migration to the gitlab only officially happened last month. There's still some pieces being figured out and discussed. The goal from what i can tell is to move everything to the gitlab, but we're not completely there. You -can- submit issues and merge requests on the gitlab already, but it's not "officially" how things are done. (As far as I know).

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