> On 09 Jun 2017, at 18:18, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 stall [2]. 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 offers a way to notify Pull Request contributors about the >> contribution guidelines for a project [3]. Let's make use of this! >> >> [1] https://github.com/git/git >> [2] https://github.com/git/git/pulls >> [3] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository/ > > It would be good to have some instructions, but instead of warning > people off we could just point them to submitgit.herokuapp.com > > You can submit patches to this list using that, and if someone's > trying to submit a pull request they might be much happier using that. Agreed! I wasn't sure if this solution is still active/maintained by Roberto! - Lars