> On 10 Jun 2017, at 14:48, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> >> 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/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > I see there are currently 84 open PRs (13 in the last 14 days), so it is real. > > I also see that the Issues page for git.git appears to be disabled, and will redirect to the pulls page. > > Maybe the instructions should also be part of an Issues template which could reduce the potential number of PRs being created (but could create its own problems) I don't think that is necessary as Issues are disabled for this repo. >> ... >> +Thanks for taking the time to contribute to Git! Please be advised, that the Git community does not use github.com for their contributions. Instead, we use a [mailing list](http://public-inbox.org/git/) for code submissions, code reviews, and bug reports. > > Isn't the mailing list git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with an archive at http://public-inbox.org/git/ ? Agreed! > >> + >> +Please [read the maintainer notes](http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob_plain;f=MaintNotes;hb=todo) to learn how the Git > > Is using the repo.or.cz address deliberate as a way of highlighting that Github isn't the centre of the universe when accessing a DVCS repo? Haha, partly yes. Plus, I wasn't able to figure out quickly how to access the todo blob on GitHub. > Maybe the kernel.org repo should be first, or at least the alt-git.git repo at repo.or.cz listed in those same notes. Agreed! > It's still a good idea though. Thanks :) - Lars