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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:50:38
Message-Id: CAKmKYaAWDHf-rd0NGa1hbqdMQ3M7svN+qj3UPPF=ebiGTt_k8g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > TL;DR: if nobody comes up with a good solution and implements it, we'll
4 > be discontinuing support for GitHub as contribution platform for Gentoo
5 > and automatically closing all PRs except for those meant for proxy-
6 > maint.
7 >
8
9 FWIW, this would make me sad. Working with GitHub PRs is the easiest way
10 for me to accept contributions from non-committers today, and I appreciate
11 all the hard work that has gone into it.
12
13
14 > Unless someone has a very good idea how to solve this, I will declare
15 > pull requests for regular packages unsupported 7 days from now, that is
16 > on 2017-11-07. After that date, as time permits I will update
17 > the relevant documentation and modify the scripts to automatically close
18 > incoming pull requests with appropriate explanation.
19 >
20
21 Maybe there can be an whitelist of developers that accept PRs, and PRs for
22 packages that don't have any of these devs/teams get autoclosed?
23
24 Cheers,
25
26 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>