[arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors

[Giancarlo Razzolini]

> 
> I personally prefer patch submission and discussion via mailing lists to
> pull requests and web interfaces. As a maintainer of aurweb, I would
> consider it a setback to move to something that makes maintenance work
> more cumbersome for me. However, if it turns out to improve either the
> quality or quantity of patches (without reducing the other), I am fine
> with switching.
> 

One thing that I must point out is that having something like gitlab, doesn't
preclude us from receiving patches on the mail lists. I recall setting up a
gitlab hook that would create a merge request when some patch arrived on some
email. Also, gitlab, and most of these tools, have API's. Hacking something
should be trivial.

Cheers,
Giancarlo Razzolini
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