Hey,
more than half a year has passed since the GNOME Github mirror was
setup and we are incredibly happy that it has contributed positively
to bring more contributors to the GNOME Project. While new
contributors joined the GNOME community and started contributing
through the usual workflow of sub
On Tue, May 5, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Hey,
>
> more than half a year has passed since the GNOME Github mirror was
> setup and we are incredibly happy that it has contributed positively
> to bring more contributors to the GNOME Project.
I'm actually confused as to how the mirror h
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:51 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> That said, I would like to invite anyone interested to include the
> sample file above on the module/s they contribute to. If you have a
> different opinion on how this should be managed, please follow up to
> this thread.
I used to think tha
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 13:44 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> I'm certainly cognizant of issues such as github not being FOSS,
> the inconsistency with other projects hosted in GNOME, but
> with the current status quo, if the choice is between "don't use PRs"
> or "don't be in GNOME infra" that's likel
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:51 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
>
> """The GNOME contributing guidelines do require patches to be
> forwarded to GNOME's Bugzilla instance hosted at
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org, as such please do not open Pull Requests
> (PRs) against any of the modules under the GNOME organ
"Thanks for your contribution to GNOME" reads too much like a "Thank you
for not smoking" to me.
I usually read a CONTRIBUTING.md before I make any contributions so that
I make sure I'm doing it right. The "thank you" makes it out like I'm
already an active participant.
Yes, I know that's petty.
Philip Withnall writes:
> […] given the choice between:
> • a contributor giving up because Bugzilla is another account to create
>and another tool to learn;
> • a contributor using Bugzilla but badly, and uploading a terrible
>patch which doesn’t apply cleanly; or
> • a contributor su
On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 18:54 -0500, alexskc wrote:
> I usually read a CONTRIBUTING.md before I make any contributions so
> that
> I make sure I'm doing it right.
Er good point, I seriously forgot that people might actually open the
file and see what's inside. New proposal:
"""The GNOME contribut
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 10:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Philip Withnall writes:
>
> > […] given the choice between:
> > • a contributor giving up because Bugzilla is another account to create
> >and another tool to learn;
> > • a contributor using Bugzilla but badly, and uploading a terrible