Hello, I do not want merge requests from random people. I want a bugreport with an attached patch. How can I signal this to people? (without spending an inordinate amount of time in salsa to click around and disable merge requests entirely).
Best Il giorno gio 14 ago 2025 alle ore 21:44 Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > I have now witnessed several cases where a maintainer blatantly > > > ignored the MRs their package received. > > > > As several of us have been noting for some time now, it is very easy to > > accidentally ignore Salsa MRs because the defaults don't send email to the > > maintainer when an MR is opened. I realize that this may look like > > "blatantly ignoring" an MR to people who regularly use Salsa, but for > > maintainers who do not, it's often entirely accidental. > > For most people it is surely accidental, and sending a reminder to > check for open MRs like I did today can help. > > There are many ways to easily check. As a picture explains more than a > thousand words, put some screenshots at > https://wiki2025.debian.org/wiki/Salsa to showcase. > > I am contemplating if I should share the cases of bad behavior my > mentees experienced when trying to contribute, as you don't seem to > believe that such could have happened. For now I think that just > reminding people about checking MRs and reviewing them as a general > advice is the best course of action. Also note that I suggest people > to *review* MRs, I didn't say at any point that one must accept and > merge all contributions. For many Linux users who want to contribute > to Debian their first step is to file a bug or file a Merge Request, > and it would be a shame if they simply go ignored. > -- Salvo Tomaselli I difensori della morale tradizionale sono raramente persone di cuore. Si è tentati di pensare che essi si servano della morale come di legittimo sfogo al loro desiderio di fare del male agli altri. -- Bertrand Russell, Perché non sono cristiano. 1957 http://ltworf.github.io/
