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

Nikolai Kondrashov Nikolai.Kondrashov at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 14:01:10 UTC 2015


On 06/15/2015 04:56 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:29:37PM +0300, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
>> 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.
>
> (We had a parallel discussion on #sssd, so maybe I'm repeating myself or
> rephrasing someone else in this e-mail)
>
> What would be awesome would be if github pull request could translate
> into git-send-email to the mailing list. We would still have the problem
> of handling the other direction of communication (replying to the pull
> request), but at least we would see what the patch is about..

I think this is possible with low to moderate effort.

>> P.S. To be honest, I find GitHub more contributor-friendly than
>>       the fedorahosted.org site. At least for the casual contributor.
>
> I don't think anyone is disputing that :-)

Great :)

Nick



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