On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:30:56 -0400 Andrew Moore <slew...@gmail.com> wrote: > As someone who only reads the manual as last resort, I think > Section 7 of the MacPorts Guide could be retitled from “MacPorts > Project” to “Contributing to MacPorts”. And then steps for > creating pull requests via GitHub spelled out tutorial-wise. > Perhaps steal an existing tutorial > <https://yangsu.github.io/pull-request-tutorial/>.
Pull requests to make these changes would be quite welcome! > While I appreciate the intent, I think “easing into” GitHub is more > obfuscating, and actually adds an extra hurdle for contributors. > For instance the section immediately following “Using Git and > GitHub” is titled “New Ports” and proceeds with steps for > contributing a Trac ticket. Only after saying please use GitHub preferentially in boldface and first saying "use github! but if you're using trac, do this!" Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pmetz...@macports.org
