Re: GitHub mirror creates contribution problems

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 13:33 +0000, Alberto Fanjul Alonso wrote:
> I remember to suggest a PR and the close response easily drive to
> correct place.

If it happens *after* the PR has been filed, it doesn't help one bit.
The person might be new to GitHub and go through a number of steps to
submit their PR, and they'd have to do it again to submit it through
bugzilla.

> I know bugzilla and git.gnome.org by that time but guess that getting
> such response and don't look at it as it seems automatic is the real
> problem.

That's not the problem.

> Anyway a README.md is available in our projects and is the default
> for github (and people used to github). Maybe a simple automatic
> rebase on master po f a README.md (and if you want a mirror-master
> branch as tip on github) can solve this

That would require making changes to every single mirrored module, so
that's not viable.

> On mar, 5 de septiembre de 2017 13:13 Bastien Nocera
> <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > 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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