On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at 23:38 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-02-08 8:35 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: > > I'm sure the patch author would appreciate it, but I don't think we > > need to require it as we have gone this long without it. > > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I > would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the > "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to the real > author, the one who proposed the change on the bug tracker or someone > else, we will be able to compute statistics on most active > contributors to more easily detect them and promote them to core > developers. > > What do you think? > Personally I think this would be great for everyone to do. Do you want to propose a PR for the devguide to document what to include (I assume committer will automatically be filled with the core dev's info so that should only require authorship to be specified). > > I agree that pull requests avoid the issues of filling manually the > author field, but I expect that not everyone will use PR, especially > because we will still use our current bug tracker which accepts to > attach patch files. Ok to propose them to create a PR instead. > My expectation is there will be a transition period of dealing with patches on bpo which have submitters who don't want to bother making an equivalent PR on GitHub.
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