GitHub mirror creates contribution problems
- From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
- To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: GitHub mirror creates contribution problems
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:12:23 +0200
Hey,
As expected the GitHub mirror might be costing us some contributions
rather than attracting more:
- none of the projects repositories mention that the mirrors are
mirrors
- the READMEs don't mention that they're mirrors either, or point to
the upstream code, Bugzilla or code contributions
- none of the project pages on the Wiki mention that the GitHub repos
are mirrors
- the PR getting closed means that the contribution won't even be
looked at, after the person's figured out how to try and contribute to
the repository
From a discussion with a colleague who tried to upstream a fix:
I could not find instructions how to submit a patch, but the Github
repository had pull requests enabled, so I submitted a fix there:
Then [the automatic closure] happened:
[...]
At this point, I moved on to more productive things.
We really need a way to disable PRs, or disable the mirror.
At the *very least*, and that would need to happen yesterday, we need a
PR template mentioning that PRs will be closed, and the repository
descriptions mentioning that the repositories are mirrors.
Cheers
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