Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: > Janek WarchoĊ writes: > >> Other things that are worth looking at are: >> - gitorious >> - gerrit >> - something else i've forgotten? > > You may want to study > > - plain email-based patch submission using a benevolent dictator, > ie, use git the way it was designed and is still used by the > creators (linux, git).
git's development itself is less dictator-specific than Linux' development, I think. This is also a bit of a red herring since our Contributor's Guide does _not_ ask for using the issue tracker (in fact, the issue tracker itself quite clearly states that users should not enter issues themselves). It can be argued that Email-based patch submission _is_ already what we propose, and we have the bug-squad as an interface into the issue tracking system from there. Part of the reason is actually that I started contributing patches a few years ago to LilyPond when there was nothing like the bug squad around, and after a while of contributions seemingly going down the drain without anybody who could be interested in them, getting really and quite obnoxiously pissed. So Graham organized the infrastructure where this would not easily happen again in the same manner, and the Contributor's Guide reflects it. But we haven't exactly seen a flurry of patches from newcomers appearing on the lists. Of course, part of the reason is that any good mailing list citizen will, before contributing, study some of the mailing list archives to figure out how things are usually done. And of course, studying our mailing list histories does not suggest that "just submit a git patch series" is a viable thing to do. So should our finally selected issue/review tool try _faking_ that appearance? Maybe. No idea. Perhaps we are overthinking this. At any rate, looking at options for more Git-centric tools than Rietveld can't do much harm. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
