On 17/05, Adam Brenner wrote:

This will (hopefully) be my first time submitting a merge request to an existing package (p4) within the AUR. The trouble I am having, it that it is unclear, for me, how this process should work.

Merge requests are for merging two already existing packages into one. You seem to want something like git pull requests. There is no such thing, comment on the package and hope that the maintainer incorporates your changes. -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/

* Johannes Löthberg [2015-05-17 23:31:16 +0200]:

On 17/05, Adam Brenner wrote:

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This will (hopefully) be my first time submitting a merge request to an existing package (p4) within the AUR. The trouble I am having, it that it is unclear, for me, how this process should work.

Merge requests are for merging two already existing packages into one. You seem to want something like git pull requests. There is no such thing, comment on the package and hope that the maintainer incorporates your changes.

Note GitLab[1] calls those Merge Requests, that's maybe where the confusion comes from. Florian [1] https://about.gitlab.com/ -- http://www.the-compiler.org | me@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/

On 17/05, Florian Bruhin wrote:

* Johannes Löthberg [2015-05-17 23:31:16 +0200]:

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Merge requests are for merging two already existing packages into one. You seem to want something like git pull requests. There is no such thing, comment on the package and hope that the maintainer incorporates your changes.

Note GitLab[1] calls those Merge Requests, that's maybe where the confusion comes from.

IIRC gitorious did too now that I think about it. -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/