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Re:Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community by chungy on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:37AM (#14977039)
> I'm just starting to accept patches for my project, and honestly I'm flabberghasted that people will send patches that not only don't run, but don't build. And Greg was saying the same thing.

Indeed, I've seen the same thing. I have considered automatically rejecting any patch made with the GitHub online editor (obvious because the committer name is always GitHub). They are pretty much invariably of shit quality.

Re:Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community by simonh on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:42AM (#14980783)
That's fair enough. The only times I've submitted patches that way is to update documentation files. I'd never submit code that way.