[tz] Change Request: Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv

Eliot Lear lear at lear.ch
Wed Dec 15 07:53:13 UTC 2021


Do you really not want PRs?  I think the issue is where discussion 
happens, not how code lands...

Eliot

On 14.12.21 18:26, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> On 12/6/21 05:43, John Hawkinson wrote:
>> It is not until the last paragraph of that file that any mention is 
>> made of pull requests ("[p]lease do not create [them]")
>
> After more thought I went back to this first suggestion, and put 
> "please do not create pull requests" at the start of the CONTRIBUTING 
> file, going back to plain-text format. Although this is not as 
> spiffy-looking on GitHub, it should be good enough to address what 
> remains of the original problem.
>
> There is some advantage to sticking with plain text over Markdown as 
> tzdb already has two other markup formats - HTML5, and man pages - and 
> proliferation of markup formats has its own problems. Had GitHub 
> supported CONTRIBUTING.html it might have been a different matter.
>
> I did leave a few Markdownisms in CONTRIBUTING (when they look fine in 
> text too), and backported some of the minor improvements to 
> CONTRIBUTING that I had made to the Markdown version.
>
> I'm attaching both a 'git diff -b' between last week's CONTRIBUTING 
> and the new, and the newly-installed proposed patches.
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