Re:The Pull Request Hack Is Fucking Magic
by humanistbot on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:01AM
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> The pre-GitHub equivalent would be giving people commit access to the CVS/Subversion repository.
Correct.
> This generally did not happen lightly either in most projects.
Maybe not for the super big or central projects. But for most in that long tail, that's been my experience, at least in Debian. For a long time, there have been tons of orphaned projects or projects actively looking for new maintainers.
Correct.
> This generally did not happen lightly either in most projects.
Maybe not for the super big or central projects. But for most in that long tail, that's been my experience, at least in Debian. For a long time, there have been tons of orphaned projects or projects actively looking for new maintainers.