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Re: Why not set Emacs development workflow based on the popular git forg


From: Hongyi Zhao
Subject: Re: Why not set Emacs development workflow based on the popular git forges (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, ect)?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 21:58:04 +0800

On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 9:47 PM Kévin Le Gouguec
<kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >                                            OTOH, Linux kernel [1] has
> > already adopted GitHub as its development platform, which is also
> > complete free and a classic example of successful free software.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux
>
> FTR: this is a read-only mirror.  As the helpful bot that answers every
> pull request there says:
>
> > Thanks for your contribution to the Linux kernel!
>
> > Linux kernel development happens on mailing lists, rather than on
> > GitHub - this GitHub repository is a read-only mirror that isn't used
> > for accepting contributions. So that your change can become part of
> > Linux, please email it to us as a patch.

Thank you for pointing this out. But the KernelPRBot [1] also admits
the following:

Sending patches isn't quite as simple as sending a pull request, but
fortunately it is a well documented process.

[1] https://github.com/KernelPRBot

Best, Hongyi



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