Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:05:44PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> - plain email-based patch submission using a benevolent dictator,
>   ie, use git the way it was designed and is still used by the
>   creators (linux, git).

Are you volunteering to be that benevolent dictator?  Spend, say,
15 hours a week reviewing and approving patches?  I have no
quarrel if you want to do that.

The whole system is set up to minimize the demands on main
developers.  Any solution which shifts the burden away from
contributors and onto main developers is IMO bad for LilyPond.
We do *not* have an active body of main developers who want to
spend time on administration.  Does this place more burden on new
contributors?  yep.  Do I think that's fair?  yep.  At least, it's
certainly more fair than giving contributors expectations that the
main developers are not willing to  meet.

- Graham