On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Ben Noordhuis wrote:

>> While I appreciate pull requests with good features and fixes, just sending
>> a pull request to me is not OK unless we've discussed the changes on a
>> suitable mailing list first.
>
> You should mention this in the project's description on GH.

There's just no field available for it. If I would use the tiny short
description field for it, then the actual description wouldn't fit AND more
importantly, this text is inherited by the ones who fork the project at github
as they get the same description automatically.

> People that send in pull requests probably don't subscribe to the mailing
> list, that is sort of the idea behind it - low barrier to entry.

I realize that's the idea behind it, but I consider it somewhat broken and
shortsighted as it pretty much equals sending a patch in a private email to
someone and puts a load on a single individual. The cURL project is supposed
to be a group effort as far as possible!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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