Small contributing guidelines update

the-real-herowl 2024-05-19 03:14:40 +02:00
parent 3cf21b3559
commit f2c19946ab

@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ on them isn't valuable), but when in doubt prefer merging
* Manual merging may be done by a Maintainer if there are technical problems * Manual merging may be done by a Maintainer if there are technical problems
with the branch, with Gitea, or the PR had been merged to from master and with the branch, with Gitea, or the PR had been merged to from master and
the author can't fix it for whatever reason the author can't fix it for whatever reason
* PR from a fork (usually the author has no contributor/developer privileges)
can be retargeted and merged first into a buffer (normal new) branch on the repo
when adopted by a Developer, and only later into master
* Submodules should only be used if a) upstream is highly reliable and * Submodules should only be used if a) upstream is highly reliable and
b) it is 100% certain that no VL specific changes to the code will be b) it is 100% certain that no VL specific changes to the code will be
needed (this has never been the case before, hence VL is submodule free so far) needed (this has never been the case before, hence VL is submodule free so far)