[Dev] Contributing to [pcr]

Michał Masłowski mtjm at mtjm.eu
Fri Jan 16 18:32:07 GMT 2015


> Since I saw several people (including myself) want to contribute to
> [pcr] while the rules on how to get access to abslibre.git are pretty
> tough (and not codified on the wiki)

The rules are completely broken, lead to ignored contributions and
people being discouraged from contributing more.

> I thought it'd be better to have an
> official contribution model based on pull requests. Reasons include:
>
> * Anybody who can use Git can convince a maintainer to include their
> packages.
> * It's better from the security standpoint - does not require
> maintainers to let random people access the repo or (as it's now) deny
> the access entirely.
> * It fits Git better than the current centralized model :).

+1.

Can we use this opportunity to have some code review for all commits
before they are merged?  Or what else is missing here for this?
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