Re: [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Sep 20, 2019, 17:51 UTC
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- <7819b52e-9222-8158-d26d-bf4ab2eec498@gmail.com>
Garima Singh <garimasigit@gmail.com> writes:
>> could get people to tag with [FIRST PATCH] or something when sending in >> their first patch.
I personally think that the [FIRST PATCH] thing will add distraction without helping much, so I am mildly negative on that idea.
>> If the patch is not desired, then we should explain why it wasn't >> desired instead of just leaving them hanging. I know Junio is too busy >> to say "hey, I'm picking this patch up" to every single patchset,
It's not busy-ness but more of forgetfullness, or being human. I'll try harder ;-)
>> but if >> a patch is desired, perhaps the rest of us could pick up the slack and >> say, "hey, your patchset was picked up by Junio in his gitster repo on >> this branch".
OK.