Notes for DLang maintainers

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/28/2017 11:03 AM, Seb wrote:
> 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).

That's awesome. Thanks! -- Andrei