Re: [libvirt] official libvirt mirror on github?

On 22/05/2015 09:20, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 05/22/2015 03:33 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: >> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 21:34:25 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Anyone considered setting up libvirt*.git mirrors on github? Given the >>> popularity of github these days, IMO it's unfortunate we don't have an >>> official mirror on there. >>> >>> As far as the actual mirroring though, we'd probably need to set up hooks on >>> libvirt.org to push new commits up to github, there doesn't appear to be any >>> better way than that. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> I'm worried that once we have a github clone that is described as >> official it will motivate people to send code via github pull requests >> rather than via the mailing list. >> > Yes that t seems to happen with many other projects that don't use > pull-requests. However it's easy to catch these: libvirt committers can just > 'watch' the github repo and get email notification when there's pull-request > activity (I wish there was a way to send these notifications to a mailing list > but github doesn't have native support for it: > https://github.com/github/github-services/issues/804) > > That said I think pull-requests are still an opportunity to get new > contributers, if we react quickly and point them at the mailing list and tell > them they don't even need to subscribe, just git send-email it. Recently I found the Go project uses an easy way to inform contributors pull requests are not supported. https://github.com/golang/go/pulls