[llvm-dev] Enable Contributions Through Pull-request For LLVM

[David Greene via llvm-dev]

David Tellenbach via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> My -1 holds even more since I personally find the Phabricator workflow
> to be very good in particular as it even got easier since arcanist
> works perfectly fine with git and the complete arc workflow can be
> used since the migration. In contrast to e.g. Bugzilla where we
> searched for an alternative since the current situation was bad, this
> is not the case for Phabricator.

After days of trying, I gave up trying to get arcanist to work.  So it's
all manual diff + cut and paste into a browser for me.  That is
significantly worse than simply pushing to a PR.

> Regarding the hurdle for new contributors: Is the Github workflow
> really easier or is it just the case that more people have Github
> accounts?

They're related, right?  GitHub is easier because lots of people are
already familiar with it.

                    -David