On 22/04/20 18:01, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > 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...
Philippe did it on April 6! Thanks, Paolo
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