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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:41:11
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_p6v+b_KXSF6iTkX35DZMVWrsG2TvwvXKmgVgz7adXnYA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> TL;DR: if nobody comes up with a good solution and implements it, we'll
5 >> be discontinuing support for GitHub as contribution platform for Gentoo
6 >> and automatically closing all PRs except for those meant for proxy-
7 >> maint.
8
9 So does this mean we go back to patches being filed on bugzilla?
10
11 > FWIW, this would make me sad. Working with GitHub PRs is the easiest way for
12 > me to accept contributions from non-committers today, and I appreciate all
13 > the hard work that has gone into it.
14 >
15 >>
16 >> Unless someone has a very good idea how to solve this, I will declare
17 >> pull requests for regular packages unsupported 7 days from now, that is
18 >> on 2017-11-07. After that date, as time permits I will update
19 >> the relevant documentation and modify the scripts to automatically close
20 >> incoming pull requests with appropriate explanation.
21 >
22 >
23 > Maybe there can be an whitelist of developers that accept PRs, and PRs for
24 > packages that don't have any of these devs/teams get autoclosed?
25 >
26 > Cheers,
27 >
28 > Dirkjan

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