Re: [libvirt PATCH] github: enable lockdown of issues and merge requests

Libvirt uses GitHub as an automated read-only mirror. The goals were to have a disaster recovery backup for libvirt.org, a way to make it easy for people to clone their own private copy of libvirt Git, and finally as a way to interact with apps like Travis. The project description was set to a message telling people that we don't respond to pull requests. This was quite a negative message to potential contributors, and also did not give them any guidance about the right way to submit to libvirt. Many also missed the description and submitted issues or pull requests regardless. It is possible to disable the issue tracker in GitHub, but there is no way to disable merge requests. Disabling the issue tracker would also leave the problem of users not being given any positive information about where they should be reporting instead. There is a fairly new 3rd party application built for GitHub that provides a bot which auto-responds to both issues and merge requests, closing and locking them, with a arbitrary comment: https://github.com/apps/repo-lockdown This commit adds a suitable configuration file for libvirt, which tries to give a positive response to user's issue/pullreq and guide them to the desired contribution path on GitLab. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- FYI, I have configured the test.git repo to demonstrate the operation. See the comments / actions performed here: https://github.com/libvirt/test/pull/3 https://github.com/libvirt/test/issues/2 This lockdown.yml file will need to be created in each libvirt git repo, with just the URL changed. If this patch is approved, then I propose to directly push the equivalent config file to every other git repo, without spamming libvir-list for review of each.

+++ b/.github/lockdown.yml @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# Configuration for Repo Lockdown - https://github.com/dessant/repo-lockdown + +# Close issues and pull requests +close: true + +# Lock issues and pull requests +lock: true + +# Optionally, specify configuration settings just for `issues` or `pulls` +issues: + comment: | + Thank you for your interest in the libvirt project. + + Since this repository is a read-only mirror of the project's master repostory hosted on GitLab, issues opened here are not processed.