Re: Please merge the three pull requests on GitHub

Andrew Miloradovsky <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:25:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.planner.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Maybe I should give the explicit link to the branch with the fix I
mentioned:

https://github.com/amiloradovsky/planner/tree/zero-width-lines


On 04/19/2017 09:46 AM, Andrew Miloradovsky wrote:
> Hello, Planner developers!
>
> Several months ago I had a not very pleasant experience
> in an attempt to contribute to GNOME, namely Planner:
> I wanted to commit a fix for a strange issue which happened to me on a
> distribution.
> It was somewhat hard to reproduce but the patch was, IMO, very
> reasonable nevertheless.
> I was told by the port maintainers to better commit the fix upstream. --
> Of course!
>
> I noticed that many GNOME projects have a mirror on GitHub,
> and tried to open a pull request, in hope it will be merged, sooner or
> later.
> Alas, that PR was automatically closed and I was sent into the
> documentation,
> which basically told me to go fuck myself...
>
> Recently I checked how much Planner progressed during these months,
> and what happened to the "open-closed" PR's on GitHub, by the way...
> I understand that GitHub is a questionable enterprise -- convenient,
> but hosting FOSS projects there is not very wise in the long run.
> OTOH, by the nature of Git, it shouldn't matter where the submitted
> patches are hosted,
> even if that's hell.
>
> All that being said: for God's sake, somebody,
> just forget all those ideological considerations for a moment,
> merge the PR's, or at least leave a comment why you wouldn't!
> Showing some activity on GH by not ignoring those "open-closed" PR,
> I'm sure, may spark the interest for further contributions! Next time,
> I promise to use Bugzilla or whatever in-house GNOME tools I'm supposed
> to use.
>
> https://github.com/GNOME/planner/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed