Re: pull requests

[Richard Stallman]

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I have never seen what a pull request is like to use.  I do not use
the systems which support them.  In trying to think about their
implications, I have to go by the descriptions people have sent me
in this discussion.

Unfortunately, the descriptions I've reaceived seen to conflict.
Perhaps people were describing different ways that different projects
or different platforms handle pull requests, but I did not know that
when I read them.

Also, they are written to be read by people who have used pull
requests and basically understand them, which I do not.  As a result,
I have trouble making sense of them.

I want to make sure we avoid results that would undermine the GNU
Project's moral and political position.  For instance, the result of
distributing something that we say is an injustice and should not
exist at all.

Just what is required for this, in practical terms, depends on how we
would implement the pull requests.  Some methods don't have a
problem; some do.

Could people figure out which different approaches they
are considering, then tell me how those approaches work?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)