Re: [PATCH v3] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2017, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20170614174647.GV133952@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170614073536.45498-1-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider wrote:

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> Many open source projects use github.com for their contribution process.
> Although we mirror the Git core repository to github.com [1] we do not
> use any other github.com service. This is unknown/unexpected to a
> number of (potential) contributors and consequently they create Pull
> Requests against our mirror with their contributions. These Pull
> Requests become stale. This is frustrating to them as they think we
> ignore them and it is also unsatisfactory for us as we miss potential
> code improvements and/or new contributors.
>
> GitHub contribution guidelines and a GitHub Pull Request template that
> is visible to every Pull Request creator can be configured with special
> files in a Git repository [2]. Let's make use of this!
>
> [1] https://github.com/git/git
> [2] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository/
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .github/CONTRIBUTING.md          | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md |  7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
>  create mode 100644 .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Thanks.