On 5/1/24 10:38 AM, Maciej Barć wrote:
> Ionen, I think that regular contributors could skip this altogether. For
> example the person I'm mentoring I am sure would follow all requirements
> listed by mgorny and me (see my reply).


Regular contributors might not even be submitting via PRs at all. :P


>> On a side-note, I have nothing against having .github in the tree. Just
>> saying given I know not everyone is happy with that.
> 
> I think we should push more into "conforming" to standard of online
> software forges. Reminder that we STILL do not have any form of a README
> file. Not even one that would say "Hey look at https://gentoo.org/".
> Also no license link. Afaik all contribs are under GPL-2.


Every file has a copyright header:

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2


It's not clear to me what more you want than this, or who it would help.

A README could be useful to github I guess, but on the other hand the
main purpose of a README is to tell people who don't know what a
repository is for, what that repository is for. Would it basically
duplicate the contents of https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild_repository
or is there something else you want to see in a README?

I don't think "Hey look at https://gentoo.org" is remotely useful as a
README, compared to what is already there:

[MIRROR] Official Gentoo ebuild repository
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git

which is already quite explanatory in ways that a noncommittal link to
the gentoo homepage is NOT.

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Eli Schwartz