> > > Anybody knows why asfgit closed the PR? > > I've clicked on the above hyperlink, and saw some comments made by > Julian (11 hours ago) and by the submitter (8 hours ago), but these > comments are not visible on dev@. Shouldn't those be synced back here > somehow? Or how should we handle PR's, preferably with a process > that's still centered around the dev@ mailinglist? > > If we can't really handle PR's well, maybe we shouldn't allow them > (i.e. indicate this on github somehow, that it's just a mirror and we > won't accept PR's, but expect patch submissions on dev@ instead)? > > If you ask people comfortable with donating code via PR to email patches (or similar) to dev@ instead, you'll get a 1/100th contribution rate. Or worse.
There's no easy answer. Partially related - I'd previously whined about GitHub's lock-in for some data and wrote - https://github.com/paul-hammant/pull-request-scraper - which probably needs refreshing since last using it.
