[Development] GitHub Pull requests

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Tue Mar 10 18:08:39 CET 2020


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-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>
To: Cristián Maureira-Fredes <cristian.maureira-fredes at qt.io>; development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>
Sent: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 12:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Development] GitHub Pull requests


10.03.2020, 19:25, "Cristián Maureira-Fredes" <cristian.maureira-fredes at qt.io>:
> Hello,
>
> On 3/10/20 3:48 PM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>>  I think, lowering barrier of entry at expense of reviewers' convenience should
>>  have its limits
>
> Totally agree,
> so we should plan to accept patches from platform and systems
> made for code development, like Github :)
>
> , otherwise we may end up accepting contributions from Twitter:)
>
> If Twitter becomes on a code development platform
> with pull-requests, reviews, and so on...sure :P

My point is that GitHub is inferior as a code review platform. Lowering entry barrier 
for drive-by contributors (who quite likely won't come back to maintain code they've
introduced), it reduces quality of life for reviewers.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin

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