Re: FYI GitHub pull request / issue tracker lockdown bot

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

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On 22/04/20 18:01, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 03:22:13PM +0100, 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...

Philippe did it on April 6!

Thanks,

Paolo



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