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 > <had...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-devel-list mailing list > > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
