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If you've got pull requests you never get around to handling, I recommend the "Pull request hack"†: give the requestor commit access. This has worked well for m
by kens 10y ago
If you've got pull requests you never get around to handling, I recommend the "Pull request hack"†: give the requestor commit access. This has worked well for me, and reduced my stress, and gained me a contributor who looks after the project much better than I was.
† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417
- kevinr 10y agoI cannot upvote this enough.
- dubberx 10y ago> give the requestor commit access. Why wouldn't a requestor just fork the project and continue from there?
- Flenser 10y agoThey've already forked the project in order to make the pull request. The pull request shows that they'd like to also fix the issue for all the users of the original repo.