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The primary developers on the project do not use Docker.
All of the above means that it is both difficult for people to contribute to the project and also difficult for the project maintainers to easily assess contributions.
A variation of item 3 is to keep Docker but flag it as unsupported. I don't think this is a good idea though as it adds extra maintainer burden, even if unsupported.
Note that all of the above proposals do not need to be done in the same PR.
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@biggianteye fixed up Docker in this PR: #2103. The primary developers will move over to using Docker in the future so we can keep the instructions etc. up to date. Ultimately it's an useful tool, in the past we were getting a lot of feedback that going through the native installation is too burdensome and we want to keep the barrier to entry for contributing to the project as low as possible.
The README currently says to use Docker for development. This is a problem for a number of reasons:
All of the above means that it is both difficult for people to contribute to the project and also difficult for the project maintainers to easily assess contributions.
I propose that we do the following:
A variation of item 3 is to keep Docker but flag it as unsupported. I don't think this is a good idea though as it adds extra maintainer burden, even if unsupported.
Note that all of the above proposals do not need to be done in the same PR.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: