On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 18:06 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 11:58 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:48 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 15:36 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > > Joonas Niilola wrote: > > > > > some of you may already have seen the new packages.gentoo.org > > > > > page, > > > > > https://packages.gentoo.org/ > > > > > > > > I had not seen that - that's wonderful! > > > > > > > > I would just request that /packages/ is removed from the start > > > > of > > > > package URLs. I understand how this makes request routing more > > > > complicated, but I consider it a significant usability > > > > improvement. > > > > > > > > > > > > ..anyway: > > > > > > > > > I'm suggesting of adding a new metadata flag to our Wiki's > > > > > User:/Project: page which then prints a message to this page > > > > > saying > > > > > whether the maintainer (be it project or user), "accepts" or > > > > > "deals > > > > > with" Github contributions. The wording can be a bit better, > > > > > but it'd be > > > > > there to **notify** our **contributors** whether their time > > > > > and effort > > > > > will most likely be wasted making a pull request for this > > > > > particular > > > > > maintainer. > > > > > > > > I think this is a very good feature. > > > > > > > > If I ever do become a proper Gentoo developer I will certainly > > > > not spend > > > > any time on anything to do with GitHub, and in my current > > > > position of > > > > occasional contributor I don't either. The workflow imposed by > > > > GitHub > > > > isn't good and it's important to demonstrate other methods. > > > > > > > > > > Read: it's important to slap users to satisfy developer's > > > wannabes. > > > > This sentence makes no sense, but it seems to be saying something > > rude. > > > > Would you like to clarify? > > > > If user puts effort to make a good contribution, the developer > shouldn't > be rejecting it to 'demonstrate other methods'. This is the horrible > attitude that kills the project. >
Have to second this. "I'm not a Gentoo developer, but if I were, I wouldn't use it" - what sort of ultimate put-down is that, because someone seems to have an axe to grind.
