GitHub mirror creates contribution problems



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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