Johan Corveleyn wrote:
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:11 PM, asfgit <g...@git.apache.org> wrote:
Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:

     https://github.com/apache/subversion/pull/6

Anybody knows why asfgit closed the PR?

It was because I committed the patch (r1811752) and included "This closes #6" in the log message.

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?

As others have noted, the 'integration' with Github is primitive. I raised ASF-infra ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15015 "Pull-request replies sent to dev@ not getting through to GitHub" where Daniel Gruno wrote:

"The feature is currently not in a working condition (it relied on an old FreeBSD setup). I have removed the misleading hint from future GitHub emails. We may revisit and re-enable in the future, but at present, it is not a service feature we offer any longer."

And now I see that not even PR follow-up messages from the GH side are coming through.

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)?

I would love it if we could set up an integration that worked. I've been thinking to locate the other ASF people who are interested and join them.

Another thought: Maybe GitLab or Assembla would be easier to start with than GitHub. Here's an svn mirror on GitLab, that I set up:

  https://gitlab.com/julianfoad/apache-subversion/

GitLab allows PRs to be turned off in its standard configuration settings, so I've done that. I haven't looked at all into integrating with ASF mailing lists.

- Julian

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