Notes for DLang maintainers

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On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 14:52:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Thanks. I'd replace "changes should be split into as many 
> commits as is reasonable" with "changes should be split into as 
> many pull requests as is reasonable", which is a natural 
> consequence of "most pull requests should consist of one commit 
> upon merging". (Of course there may be several commits during 
> PR review.)
>
> One vs. several commits per merged pull request is a matter in 
> which reasonable people may disagree, and we can't do both 
> ways. The Foundation fosters that github pull requests are 
> squashed upon merging, with exceptions that need to be 
> justified.
> BTW we should put this in our guidelines, we have 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Contributing_to_Phobos but not an 
> equivalent covering all of dlang properties. Is there one?

Not that I would know of.
I started an initial wiki entry (basically a cleaned copy/paste 
version of my post):

https://wiki.dlang.org/Guidelines_for_maintainers

@other maintainers: As this seems to be quite useful for 
newcomers and semi-regular contributors, please help to extend 
this wiki entry (or whenever a question pops up on GH).