Making contributions
Posted: Mon Feb 22 2016 12:17 am
It seems like the method that should be used to make contributions is poorly documented. I've watched most of the talks on copperspice and I've met Barbara and Ansel in person multiple times and somehow my pull request (https://github.com/copperspice/copperspice/pull/13) took ~3 months to get merged. Note: This isn't about blame.
I noticed in this issue (https://github.com/copperspice/copperspice/issues/11) that there was an expectation that contributors would use the forum. I personally had noticed the forum but it never occurred to me that using it would result in quicker turn around for the PR I had submitted, given that it was fairly small and was required to get copperspice building on OS X.
Anyways, my point is that having a standardized and documented way to contribute would help. Most projects have a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root of their git repo explaining this and link it from their README.md, so it's easy to discover when looking at the repo on github. It also ensures that people with the source know how to contribute without searching the web.
I noticed in this issue (https://github.com/copperspice/copperspice/issues/11) that there was an expectation that contributors would use the forum. I personally had noticed the forum but it never occurred to me that using it would result in quicker turn around for the PR I had submitted, given that it was fairly small and was required to get copperspice building on OS X.
Anyways, my point is that having a standardized and documented way to contribute would help. Most projects have a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root of their git repo explaining this and link it from their README.md, so it's easy to discover when looking at the repo on github. It also ensures that people with the source know how to contribute without searching the web.