From c88721d6f5b3f382be3fb6eb87ee9349ff7c911d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Sanchez Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 13:35:30 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Simple updates for contributing doc --- contributing.md | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contributing.md b/contributing.md index 790e7e7..9d05109 100644 --- a/contributing.md +++ b/contributing.md @@ -11,12 +11,15 @@ source projects. This may feel odd if you're used to the fork, clone, work, submit pull request cycle but we think once you get the hang of it, you'll see that this is a very fast way to contribute with very little blockers. -If it's good enough for the massive [Linux kernel][linux], [Git][], and -[Mercurial][hg] projects then it's good enough for us and our tiny ones. +If it's good enough for the massive [Linux kernel][linux], [Git][], +[Mercurial][hg], [PostgreSQL][pgsql], and [OpenBSD][obsd] projects then it's +good enough for us and our tiny ones. [linux]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html [git]: https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches [hg]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges +[pgsql]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch +[obsd]: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Diff ## Before you contribute @@ -233,11 +236,17 @@ post discussing the differences. See that here: https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html -Also Martijn Braam recently wrote a nice post about how he much prefers the +Martijn Braam recently wrote a nice post about how he much prefers the email workflow since switching about a year ago: https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/ +Also, Vincent Lee recently wrote an article titled "What's Wrong With GitHub +Workflow?" that also goes into detail about the various issues with the typical +"Github style" workflow. + +https://www.vincent-lee.net/blog/2022-02-28-github/ + While it may seem like the whole world follows the GitHub workflow, we'd wager that far more open source contributions happen via email than pull requests every day. -- 2.43.0