Re: [PATCH v1] Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

On 10 Jun 2017, at 03:51, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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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 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.

I think this description could be more focused.  It's also not
self-contained --- e.g. the link to stalled pull requests is likely to
become stale over time, especially if GitHub gives us a way to disable
pull requests for the repository some day.

Could you summarize for me the motivation behind this patch?  Is it to
make Git more approachable, to avoid frustrating contributors, etc?

I wonder if s/stall/stale/ is what Lars meant.

Of course :)

- Lars