That should be read as "if (... And ...)" So I'm not recommending to force anyone to use a public VCS, I only wanted to express that revisions should be fine if there is no way to contact upstream devs (no public VCS was just an example here)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">MarLinn <<a href="mailto:monkleyon@gmail.com">monkleyon@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am Do., 22. Juni 2017, 20:20:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> At the very least, we should make sure that each revision is<br>
> accompanied by an upstream PR if it is for the latest release (or any<br>
> other still supported branch) and the project is hosted on some VCS<br>
> service that supports PRs.<br>
><br>
<br>
Why "and" instead of "if"?<br>
<br>
A VCS is certainly a good idea. But a (public) VCS service? Why? Keep in<br>
mind that Github and its clones are only one of many options for<br>
software management. So why force maintainers to keep up with yet<br>
another service if they don't really want or need it? That only reduces<br>
the number of willing contributers and forces people into systems that<br>
they won't really use, so it wouldn't even solve the problem.<br>
<br>
I get the sentiment, but if email is good enough as a last-stage<br>
PR-queue for the Linux Kernel, we should allow package maintainers the<br>
same. If that makes it harder for them to integrate changes, that's<br>
their problem. (But one could always use a format that's easy to parse.)<br>
<br>
Bonus: automatic "PR's" via email should be dead-easy to implement and<br>
maintain compared to all alternatives.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
MarLinn<br>
<br>
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