Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
by rmetzler on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:27AM
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The CI is something that keeps me from contributing. I don’t say it doesn’t do it’s job and I don’t say it’s not useful. What I mean is the CI is often set up to enforce rules that aren’t clear when you create the pull request.
I’ve a pull request to Ansible that’s open for ~ 2 years now and I keep on doing commits just to satisfy the CI without getting any actual feedback from the Ansible maintainers whether or not my pull request will be accepted.
And just yesterday I opened a pull request on the Azure cli and the CI pipeline forbids pull requests to master without telling first time contributors the accepted workflow.
My contribution is just a small typo fix in a help text, but adding a sentence of how to create a good pull request in the issue template would actually go a long way.
I’ve a pull request to Ansible that’s open for ~ 2 years now and I keep on doing commits just to satisfy the CI without getting any actual feedback from the Ansible maintainers whether or not my pull request will be accepted.
And just yesterday I opened a pull request on the Azure cli and the CI pipeline forbids pull requests to master without telling first time contributors the accepted workflow.
My contribution is just a small typo fix in a help text, but adding a sentence of how to create a good pull request in the issue template would actually go a long way.