On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 14:41:08 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
So it's "welcome help", but there's still the actual work that needs to be done by someone else: Not only the pull, but the review, sticking with the review, etc...
Sure.
I can also appreciate that filing a bug is work in itself. Doing that is already a step most people don't take. We just need to meet halfway, and not bitch about it: Both sides have or will provide work, and need to realize that about the other.
I think is better to view it as a stair case. You don't want the first step to be steep. By showing gratitude and educating potential contributors on the standard procedure perhaps more people walk the steps.
Making the first contributions as an attachment to a bug report seems like lowering the threshold for contribution. If you don't have full confidence in the patch, and think it might be slaughtered, then it probably is perceived as less "humiliating" to do that then to follow the formal procedure. If it goes through, then maybe it will encourage more formal participation in the next round.
Contributing through github, if you have no interest/knowledge about it, sounds like a major commitment at the first step.
Requiring initial contributors to figuring out a system they have no interest in makes the staircase too steep.
