Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-02-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Wouter, On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 08:20:25AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 09:51:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Firstly, it is not clear to me how the barrier to getting involved with > > more substantial bugs is affected by the fact that I can trivially > > subm

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 09:51:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Firstly, it is not clear to me how the barrier to getting involved with > more substantial bugs is affected by the fact that I can trivially > submit typo fixes. What did you have in mind? How big was your first ever contribution to

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bernd, On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:10:38PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 01/30/2017 02:14 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > To be clear, I do believe in owning ones infrastructures, but I also see > > how this encourages small contributions and makes them easy and I do see > > this as a good th

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 01/30/2017 02:14 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 07:53:58AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> Are you saying that people are writing and submitting patches via a >> Web-based editor interface, and that you're recommending that people >> consider _accepting_ those patches, when t

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 01/30/2017 01:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > Are you saying that people are writing and submitting patches via a > Web-based editor interface, yes, nothing wrong with that. > and that you're recommending that people > consider _accepting_ those patches, when they haven't even been > _build-tes

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 07:53:58AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > Are you saying that people are writing and submitting patches via a > Web-based editor interface, and that you're recommending that people > consider _accepting_ those patches, when they haven't even been > _build-tested_ before submis

Re: github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 30 January 2017 at 12:53, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-01-30 at 07:38, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 01/30/2017 01:32 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> If someone isn't cloning the repository locally, how is that >>> someone creating the patch which is in the git repo which is >>> requested to be