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rmetzler on Feb 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pull requests are not conversations

I guess it wouldn't harm to state the patching policy inside the README file.

antirez on Feb 5, 2011 [–]

In Redis we have a "CONTRIBUTING" file in 2.2 and unstable where this is stated very clearly.

rmetzler on Feb 5, 2011 | [–]

+1 Adding a license and contribution policies to an open source project are great preconditions to get bugfixes and feature contributions.

But I wonder why then sending you pull requests is an issue?

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