Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:04, Gustav Wikström wrote: >> But to be fair, the collaboration features of GitHub surely would be a >> BIG net positive if the goal is to attract contributions and gain a >> bigger mindshare. > > Not necessarily. Some of us dislike web based tools intensely, in fact > anything that does not work well in Emacs ;-). > > In practice, I will not participate in projects that, for instance, use > slack or discourse or ... Requiring the use of github for interaction > would lead to a reduction in the (albeit rather small) contributions I > make to this project. A mailing list (or nntp) plus git is perfect for > my working methods.
But even if a project is hosted on GitHub, you can still interact with it just via Emacs, it is still Git after all. One project I have made minor contributions to is EasyBuild, a framework for managing the building and installation of (mainly) scientific software, which is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild However, I can interact with it via Magit, and even if I don't use Emacs, the project has command-line tools which allow the creation of a pull request without the me having to know anything about GitHub or even git: https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html#submitting-pull-requests-new-pr Obviously the EasyBuild people have put quite a lot of work into making this possible and it is mainly to allow people to contribute self-contained "recipes" for building particular pieces of software, rather than work on the main code of the framework. To be honest, last time I tried, responding to comments on pull-requests didn't work so well via Emacs, so unfortunately I ended up having to using the web-interface. But on the other hand, they also have a mailing list, so there is something for everyone ;-) Cheers, Loris >> This is a hobby project and it would be cool if it could be something >> else at least for someone! > > Why cool? What's cool is that so many contribute, in a wide range of > ways, without some financial recompense! -- This signature is currently under construction.
