Jordan and I have updated the EDK II Development Process page.  Please check 
and see if this clears up some of the issues.

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Development-Process

Thanks,
-Erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Bjorge, Erik C
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:23 AM
> To: El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer <samer.el-haj-mahm...@hpe.com>; edk2-
> de...@lists.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] github development process
> 
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> > El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 4:03 PM
> > To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > Subject: [edk2] github development process
> >
> > So I have been itching to submit patches after the transition to
> github,
> > when I stumbled across this. It looks like the development process
> > described in:
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-
> > II-Development-Process , does not match the process described in:
> >
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tianocore/edk2/master/MdePkg/Contribut
> > ions.txt
> >
> > I followed the process in the wiki, and ended up creating a pull
> request
> > for tiancore/edk for my contribution
> > (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/55). I was also going to send
> a
> > patch to EDK2 list (as the wiki suggests). Then I quickly realized
> that
> > the maintainers are still working only with e-mail patches, and not
> pull
> > requests, as clear from the conversations in closed/rejected pull
> > requests:
> >
> > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/45
> > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/51
> > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/41
> > etc..
> >
> >
> > I have no problem of sticking with the edk2-devel e-mail patches like
> we
> > have been doing (all of my team from HPE contributes that way). But if
> > that is the only/proper way to submit contributions, then the wiki
> need
> > to be updated to drop the pull requests steps.
> 
> I will update the Wiki as you suggest.  We were hoping to allow for at
> least some form of pull request but it looks like we are not quite ready
> for that yet.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Erik
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Samer
> >
> >
> >
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