On Mon, 13 May 2013 08:32:05 +0200
Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2013 00:24:09 +0200
> Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net> wrote:
> > On 13/05/13 00:21, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > There is no problem if github is only used for hosting, but if it
> > > is the primary point of contact, or if pull requests are accepted,
> > > then github is also writing to repositories, and merge commits are
> > >  enforced for all external contributions. That does not scale at
> > > all.
> >
> > Users can still send patches via email even if the project is hosted
> > on GitHub. And for the record I have not had problems with messy
> > merges when commiting pull requests.
> 
> Once I was asked if I could look into a package. I spent a day writing
> a couple of ebuilds including fixing the build system of the target
> package. When I presented a first git-format-patch I was ask to do a
> github pull request instead. So I asked why not git-am? The answer was
> - don't be a *beep*. As a result the package never got fixed and I
> outright ignore any repo not hosted on Gentoo infra.

Once I found a bug in an ebuild. But unfortunately that ebuild was
stored in a CVS repo, so etc etc.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh