Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:42:08AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: >> Maybe we can do something radical like enable GitHub pull requests >> to let people submit changes against the ports repo on GitHub > > Cringe. > > I sincerely hope that this doesn't happen. > > Just look at the typical quality of the projects hosted on GitHub, and > you'll see how relying on a set of third-party managed tools to do your > work instead of taking the time to learn the basic tools, (tar, diff, > an email program, etc), yourself can lead to laziness and poor quality. > > If people can't be bothered to do things themselves or make their own > tools to automate a process, how dedicated are they likely to be? > >> I believe that the GitHub repo can be configured to also email >> ports@openbsd.org on any submissions/comments there, so the mailing >> list would still be in the loop on everything for anyone that >> doesn't want to use GitHub. > > So the mailing list is going to be flooded with automated mails from > GitHub, that become tedious, leading people to just skim over them > or OK them without really reviewing the content. > > Honestly, I think we all want to keep the quality of the ports tree > as high as possible, and if learing to use tar and diff as a barrier to > entry for some people is doing that, I suggest we continue as we are. "Knowing" the tools isn't the problem. jcs@ knows how to use tar. I know how to use tar. The problem is that people send things totally differently and there is no agreed upon "standard". GH would remedy this because everything would become a diff - plain text! Also if people don't want to use the GH approach - they don't have to! at no point did jcs suggest that we make everyone get a GH account and switch to using it exclusively.
