Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

Hi Liliana,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> For example, whenever people say that "forges would improve stuff", my
> reply is (modulo phrasing) "yes, for the people who are already used to
> forges".

I just want to point out that actually Guix _do_have_ a forge. the
software is Savane and it's hosted on savannah.gnu.org:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix

This is just to remind everyone that there are very different forges out
there, and:

  All forges suck, _no one_ sucks less

> Now, forges might indeed be familiar to many,

What kind of forge?  Savannah, GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Codeberg (you
name it)

Just to bring a simple, when talking about the "Pull Request" workflow
to manage merges, they are not even interoperable (while git
request-pull /is/)

...not to talk about issue management features, when present.

[...]

> Bear in mind, that contributing already has at least one degree of
> complexity baked right into itself on the basis of being a feedback
> loop.

Wow. food for thought!

Thanks! Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

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