<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Oct 2015, at 14:48, John Crispin <<a href="mailto:blogic@openwrt.org" class="">blogic@openwrt.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">patches will linger in mailing list until someone has time to look at</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">them. the version control system used is completely irrelevant</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div>Which is true enough if the switch just encompasses moving to another VCS. However, what has not been made explicit enough is that switching to git _and_ a git web interface like Github/Gitlab may make it easier to contribute. My understanding is that it would be much easier to test proposed changes as people can simply do a checkout on a pull request and run the proposed code. Currently (unless I am missing something which is unfortunately quite possible), one would have to manually insert the patches to test.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Someone said earlier that switching to github for the packages made a positive difference in contributions. I would like to see that supported by some numbers, or possibly a contributor can elaborate a bit on the process and whether they perceive any benefits. That way, the migration of the packages might show a practical use case in the context of this project and its workflows.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joris</div></body></html>