On 05/22/2015 08:50 AM, Aline Manera wrote: > > > 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 > That's a nice idea but for completeness it doesn't fully solve the problem: notice all the closed pull-requests, many coming in after that note was added. Many people that submit pull-requests do it from the command line with a tool like 'hub' so they won't see the warning. - Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list