[SSSD] Should we have a github r/o mirror for SSSD?

Nikolai Kondrashov Nikolai.Kondrashov at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 13:29:37 UTC 2015


On 06/15/2015 04:15 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 09:32 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> See this message on sssd-users:
>>      https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/sssd-users/2015-June/003078.html
>>
>> For better or worse, many users expect a project (any project..) to be
>> on github or else it doesn't exist. Should we have some kind of
>> automated read-only repository on github.com with readme.md pointing to
>> fedorapeople.org to avoid the confusion?
>
> +1
> But then you need someone to monitor pull requests.

We can have a GitHub API bot close pull requests automatically and politely.
Or, as Lukas suggests, have a dummy repo with a message redirecting to
fedorahosted.org instead.

> Also can issues be disabled ? They are a terrible medium to report any
> issue (completely unstructured with replies hard to follow) and we
> should direct people to trac for real bug reporting.

Issues can be disabled completely.

Nick

P.S. To be honest, I find GitHub more contributor-friendly than
      the fedorahosted.org site. At least for the casual contributor.



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