Re: Github's pull requests and GNOME

[Bahodir Mansurov <bahodir mansurov org>]

Hey,

I think the solution is good. May I also suggest that we take advantage of Github's repository description 
field to indicate that the repositories are read-only mirrors. A quick glance at https://github.com/GNOME 
repositories shows that https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-data-server comes closest to what I mean. I'm sure 
even that description message can be improved.

Cheers,
Bahodir

> On November 29, 2016 at 10:00 AM Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> one of the most problematic points we've been discussing since the
> GNOME Github mirror was introduced [1] (three years already!) has been
> the presence of pull requests and the missing feature / functionality
> to actually turn them off for specific repositories / organizations.
> What many have correctly pointed out during these three years relates
> to the fact pull requests and our current contributions workflow
> collide in a way that has caused confusion between community members
> with dozens of patches being left on Github unreviewed.
>
> Finally the GNOME Infrastructure Team is going to introduce a daily
> cronjob (first run is scheduled next week, enough time for collecting
> excludes) that will close all the pull requests for each repository
> hosted under the GNOME organization umbrella. The closure message will
> look like this:
>
> """
> Thank you for contributing to $project_name!
>
> $project_name uses Bugzilla for code review.
>
> If you have never contributed to GNOME before make sure you have read the
> getting started documentation:
> http://www.gnome.org/get-involved
>
> Otherwise please visit
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/CodeContributionWorkflow
> and follow the instructions there to upload your change to Bugzilla.
> """
>
> If you don't want the script to actually run against any of your
> maintained products, modules, components please drop me an e-mail and
> I'll make sure proper excludes will be set.
>
> Thanks,
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-August/msg00010.html
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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