On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 03:22:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > QEMU, like libvirt, has a github.com project which contains automated > read-only mirrors of QEMU repositories. > > https://github.com/qemu/ > > An unfortunate side effect of this is that some users will try to open > pull requests against these mirrors. These get ignored until eventually > someone notices and closes the request. QEMU has had about 90 prs opened > over the years. > > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/pulls > > The same applies to the issue tracker, but fortunately github lets > projects disable this feature, which QEMU has done. > > I have recently discovered that there is a nice 3rd party bot for github > which can autorespond to pull requests with a friendly comment, close the > request, and then lock it to prevent further comments. > > https://github.com/apps/repo-lockdown > > I'm setting this up for libvirt and it was suggested QEMU can probably > benefit from it too as an example see: > > https://github.com/libvirt/test/issues/2 > https://github.com/libvirt/test/pull/3 > > > Configuration just requires creation of a ".github/lockdown.yml" file > which provides the friendly message to add to the merge requests. This > can be either done per-repository, or a special repo can be created > called ".github" and this will apply to all repos within the project. > > Ideally each repo would have a CONTRIBUTING.md file created too, since > both GitHub and GitLab will direct users to this file for guidelines > on how to contribute. > > I don't have time right now to do this for QEMU, so consider this email > a friendly suggestion for some other interested person to do for QEMU...
Ping Alex and Paolo, who have access to github.com/qemu. Stefan
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