Re: [PATCH] Makefile.m32: fix mingw32 build
Ben Noordhuis <
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2012-04-25 13:20:19 GMT
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 05:44, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>
> Thanks for the patch, applied and pushed now!
>
>
>> On a side note, can you guys start using GH pull requests? It's kind of
>> annoying to have to subscribe to yet another mailing list, especially when
>> it's a trivial patch like this.
>
>
> I strongly dislike github pull requests unless the patch has been properly
> reviewed and discussed on the list first (which then pretty much takes away
> the need to send a pull request). A few reasons:
>
> * We want patches to be reviewed, tested and commented by anyone who's
> interested and volunteering: that is anyone on the mailing list can speak
> up. Pull requests on github assume there's a limited core group that does
> such things.
>
> * I don't want annoying merge commits and github pull requests can't even be
> forced to avoid them.
>
> * Merging patches off the list allows us to tweak the commit messages before
> the commits are pushed which makes them better.
>
> * Having the discussions and reviews done on the mailing list gives us a
> much
> better record and unified place where they happen instead of spread out in
> on github.
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