Pain points in Git's patch flow

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 17:22:51 AEST 2021


On 14/04/21 13.13, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Those four are important in my everyday life.  Questions:
> 
>   1. What pain points in the patch flow for git.git are important to
>      you?

There is no lists of "beginner-friendly" issues that can be worked on by
new contributors. They had to search this ML archive for bug report
issues and determine themselves which are beginner-friendly.

>   2. What tricks do you use to get by with those existing pain points?
> 
>   3. Do you think patchwork goes in a direction that is likely to help
>      with these?

No, unrelated to beginner-friendly issues above.

>   4. What other tools would you like to see that could help?

Some sort of bug tracker systems like Bugzilla (used by Linux kernel
and many other projects) and Debbugs [1] (which is mail-centric and used by
Debian for its BTS).

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/

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