Re: FYI GitHub pull request / issue tracker lockdown bot

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:51:52PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/3/20 10:22 AM, 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...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> This looks cool. Who has access to our github to request it start
> scanning our repo to look for said .github/lockdown.yml file?

https://wiki.qemu.org/AdminContacts

Says afaerber, aliguori, paolo, stsquad - that probably needs updating
since two of those people aren't usually involved in QEMU anymore.

Regards,
Daniel
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