[TYPO3-dev] Contribution to community extensions

[Dominique Feyer]

HI Xavier and other,

Just my two cents, two week ago I've done some consulting for a TYPO3 Neos project. This project has been started by developer not currently part of the TYPO3 community. And as Neos is a young boy, they tackle some bugs or strange parts in documentation. They are really open to contribute, but the gerrit wall is was to high. That's not a wall, that's a mountain. 

I'm used to Gerrit, but the workflow is to complexe. Many big opensource projet work with github and so many developper are used to the PR workflow. I don't want a Gerrit vs Github discussion. The discussion must be focus on how friendly, as a community, we are to external contribution. Gerrit UI is terrible and the workflow too complexe.

That's a key point for an opensource community. We are alive because we have contributors. So we need to take a lots of care to ease the contribution wall that we have currenty. I speak about Gerrit but also the CLA.

About the CLA why enforcing a CLA for submitting a patch ? When we can per exemple require a CLA is that patch can be merged after review. That's less frustration for the new contributor. 

Yes Gerrit is opensource and Github is not ... but is that a real point ? 

Contributing to documentation is a important example, where the online edition on github rock a lots. Even for small bugfixe it work nicely. The new issue on github solve a lots of problem.