On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 13:51 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Miro HronÄok: > > > On 22. 01. 20 13:12, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > > > I think that it would be more productive if you try to rationalize this > > > opinion. > > > I don't want to argue about the feeling you have, but I would be > > > interested in comparing notes on what exactly "Gerrit workflow" means > > > to you, and whether or not it is the same thing to me. > > > > Note that I don't describe an experience with a workflow. I am > > describing a drive by contributor experience: > > > > 1. you send a Pull Request over a familiar channel > > 2. a bot tells you that you cannot do this and you need to follow this > > tutorial instead > > 3. you push your code to some place that is far to overocmplicated to > > navigate > > 4. magic happens, there is no way to see what's going on unless you > > have experienced this before > > 5. you get dozens of bot e-mail you don't understand > > 6. eventually hopefully the bot merges the thing > > Does that really matter for src.fedoraproject.org and the current > dist-git model? > > Even if you want to make a really simple change (such as fixing a typo > in the --help message), src.fedoraproject.org will not show you the file > you need to edit, or provide you with tools to produce a patch/commit to > submit. > > The Github model is different: you would just click on the š button, > make your change, add a description, and click āPropose file changeā. > But even if we switched src.fedoraproject.org to Github, this would only > work for RPM spec file changes. You would still not be able to edit the > --help message directly. Weren't there some suggestions to use upackaged source code/git subtree instead of the tarball we have now ?
Then the upstream source code would be there and you could fix the --help message directly in Fedora distgit. The result would be a fixed Fedora package & ideally also the same change automatically submitted to upstream for review. > That's why I think that there is little risk > of random drive-by contributions: people just won't find a place to make > the changes they want. (The potential FPCA issue I raised separately > still exists, though.) > > Thanks, > Florian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
