On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:51:52PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > > > On 4/3/20 10:22 AM, 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... > > > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > > This looks cool. Who has access to our github to request it start > scanning our repo to look for said .github/lockdown.yml file?
https://wiki.qemu.org/AdminContacts Says afaerber, aliguori, paolo, stsquad - that probably needs updating since two of those people aren't usually involved in QEMU anymore. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
