On Feb 23, 2014, at 05:51 , Daniel Herring <dherr...@tentpost.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Philipp Marek wrote:
> 
>> I might change my/the main repository over to github, though - it's much 
>> easier to
>> accept pull requests there than to import patches from emails.
>> Or are there any better ideas?
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> Thanks for lending a hand.  Its nice seeing bugfixes get committed.
> 
> Please don't switch to Github simply for pull requests.  Stability is 
> important for a project like this, and Github has a tendency to encourage 
> fragmentation...  It gets bothersome tracking repository moves.  If you do 
> start accepting pull requests over there, I would ask that you keep the SF 
> repository up to date as the "primary" master.
> 
> Are these emailed patches using git format-commit and git-am?  If not, 
> then maybe encouraging their use would help you.
> 

I second that.  DO NOT CHANGE ANY INFRASTRUCTURE CHOICES.  Even if I don’t work 
on ECL, these kind of changes are always very very disruptive for any community.

I also agree on the “fragmentation tendency of github”.

Cheers
—
MA



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