> On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Karol Babioch <ka...@babioch.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 03.03.2017 um 17:55 schrieb Mauro Mozzarelli: >> I would like to suggest, that when a new potential contributor is >> putting forward his proposed change, an expert buddy is assigned to >> guide the new contributor through to getting his changes reviewed and >> pushed into the mainstream code. A successful contribution would mean a >> lot and inspire more work. > > I totally agree on that. There is nothing worse than having people > contributing code, which is not merged for some odd reason and is flying > around in some bugtracker. This was a huge problem with OpenWRT, and I > thought that one of the reasons of the whole fork was to reduce the > friction and make the whole project more community-centric. I really > would like for this not to be messed up again ;). > > So this mentor kind of approach might be doing the trick. Other projects > have often something similar in place. > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch
Moving to GitHub and scrapping SVN and patchworks was a giant step forward. It’s a lot easier to post patches, make sure they don’t get mangled by mailers, and ensure that everyone is always looking at the latest copy. -Philip _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
