RE: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-15 Thread David Sidrane
’s call it: pork barreled) I will vote no on it as well. David -Original Message- From: Gregory Nutt [mailto:spudan...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2020 2:31 PM To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Question of PR Etiquette Question: Github permits committer to modify the content

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-15 Thread Abdelatif Guettouche
Completely forbidding this functionality will deprive us from a useful feature. We may need it now to help with overwhelming style complaints that were not introduced by the PR or in the future if the contributor asks for some sort of help. We just need some moderation and resort to this only after

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-15 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > So what you suggest it that we as committer don't need disscuss > anything with the contributor, we just need take his PR and do what we > think the right modification then merge directly. You could either discuss it with them or accept the PR and improve it. What you do may be decided on

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-15 Thread Xiang Xiao
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:59 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > > Hi, > > > Yes, this is last resort. It's better to discuss PR in the github and > > let the contributor fix the problem by self. The collaboration model > > can decrease the divergence and improve the community health. > > In my experience

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-14 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:59 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Yes, this is last resort. It's better to discuss PR in the github and > > let the contributor fix the problem by self. The collaboration model > > can decrease the divergence and improve the community health. > > In my experience t

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-14 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Yes, this is last resort. It's better to discuss PR in the github and > let the contributor fix the problem by self. The collaboration model > can decrease the divergence and improve the community health. In my experience this has the opposite effect, it discourages newcomers from contribu

Re: Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-14 Thread Xiang Xiao
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:31 AM Gregory Nutt wrote: > > Question: Github permits committer to modify the content of > contributors PRs through this mechanism: > https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/committing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a

Question of PR Etiquette

2020-03-14 Thread Gregory Nutt
Question:  Github permits committer to modify the content of contributors PRs through this mechanism: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/committing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a-fork I appreciate that this may be expeditious, but it f