I actually have a question. If I'm a module maintainer, is it possible for
me to receive the standard GitHub emails whenever somebody opens a pull
request on one of my repos? I'm OK with tracking pull requests and
accepting for my module.



On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Pressed sent too early.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub
>
>
> 2013/8/15 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>
>
>> 2013/8/15 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:26 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > GitHub indeed offers many features that Gnome's git web interface
>>> > doesn't.
>>>
>>> Yes, but we've disabled them all.  I really fail to see the point of
>>> GitHub without its killer feature (pull requests); it seems to have no
>>> advantages over our current infrastructure.
>>>
>>
>> Again, the point of the mirror is to encourage people that are on GitHub
>> to contribute to the GNOME Project, how? By forking a specific repository
>> and then following the usual procedure for having the patch reviewed and
>> eventually accepted.
>>
>> We are not diverging (and we won't diverge) from our development
>> workflow, I agree with you that leaving pull requests open can take in some
>> confusion and we'll be trying to address that by adding the relevant wiki
>> page [1] on the description of each of the repositories hosted on the
>> mirror so that people are aware of that.
>>
>> In an ideal world we should just disable pull requests completely
>> directly on Github, but that would require extra efforts from the Github's
>> guys that did a lot to help us mirroring our source code.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> Debian Developer,
>> Fedora / EPEL packager,
>> GNOME Sysadmin,
>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>>
>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Sysadmin,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>
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