[Pandas-dev] Thoughts on adopting a 1-PR-1-commit policy?

[Wes McKinney]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>,
> wrote:
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>> The patch tool does not occlude the patch author identity on GitHub
>> (i.e. the patches will show up on the user profile just the same).
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> Yes, but not on the "contributors" page for the github project itself.

No, this is not true. See https://github.com/apache/spark/graphs/contributors

> That said, I agree that atomic commits are useful for large projects. This
> is part of why we encourage/require squashing. I'm not entirely sure that
> pandas has enough synchronous developments that this is necessary.
> If this helps maintaince branches, it would certainly be a win -- we haven't
> been very good about maintaining bug fix only branches, which would a
> healthy thing to do for a mature project.
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