[LEDE-DEV] Drumming up more interest in LEDE

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 03.03.2017 um 17:55 schrieb Mauro Mozzarelli:
>> I would like to suggest, that when a new potential contributor is
>> putting forward his proposed change, an expert buddy is assigned to
>> guide the new contributor through to getting his changes reviewed and
>> pushed into the mainstream code. A successful contribution would mean a
>> lot and inspire more work.
> 
> I totally agree on that. There is nothing worse than having people
> contributing code, which is not merged for some odd reason and is flying
> around in some bugtracker. This was a huge problem with OpenWRT, and I
> thought that one of the reasons of the whole fork was to reduce the
> friction and make the whole project more community-centric. I really
> would like for this not to be messed up again ;).
> 
> So this mentor kind of approach might be doing the trick. Other projects
> have often something similar in place.
> 
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch


Moving to GitHub and scrapping SVN and patchworks was a giant step forward.

It’s a lot easier to post patches, make sure they don’t get mangled by mailers, and ensure that everyone is always looking at the latest copy.

-Philip