On 29.03.2017 12:13, Luigi Toscano wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 12:10:58 CEST A. Bikadorov wrote: >> On 29.03.2017 09:59, Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 6:21 AM, A. Bikadorov >>>> >>>> If there is both, a README and README.md file in the repo, the README.md >>>> is preferred for the "about" text of the project shown on Github. Which >>>> means we could add a README.md with some standard text to every repo >>>> only for Github. >>>> >>>> The advantage is that contributors will (most likely) see this before >>>> they create the pull request. (Or as an addition to a >>>> PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE file and/or autoclose script).> >>> Phabricator also displays .md files I believe, so this would cause >>> those standard texts to be shown there. >> >> Not if there is also a README file. See >> https://phabricator.kde.org/source/krusader/ and >> https://github.com/KDE/krusader > > In any case, why have to add another README in hundreds of repositories if we > can do autoclosing in one shot? >
Like I said: It can be an addition to autoclosing and contributors will see this before they create the pull request. And it is a quickfix that devs can do right now for projects which get a lot of pull requests on Github. It is not *the ultimate best solution out there*. Cheers
