[core-workflow] Other thoughts on the workflow

[Brett Cannon]

Thanks for the feedback. And the "do nothing" option is there, although
it's so disliked by so many people that the chances of us not changing our
workflow is pretty slim.

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 at 12:22 Stefan Krah <skrah.temporarily at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Brett has asked for feedback until Dec 1st, so here are my
> quick random thoughts:
>
>   1) GitHub's UI is more polished than GitLab's.
>
>   2) GitHub pull requests are not universally liked (see famous Torvalds
>      rant "... pull requests and the online commit editing, are just
>      pure ...").
>
>   3) Attracting contributors?  This was also an argument for the
>      svn -> hg change, but it did not happen IMO. On the contrary,
>      patches like https://bugs.python.org/issue3526 seem to be more
>      rare.
>
>   4) Personally, I probably would not have contributed to Python
>      if a GitHub account had been required back in 2012.  But the
>      time may come when one is excluded entirely from any Open Source
>      contributions without a GitHub account...
>
>   5) The "do-nothing" option hasn't been mentioned: The current setup
>      is actually quite nice compared to almost 99% of other projects.
>      I like it better than both GitHub/GitLab.
>
>
>
> Stefan Krah
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