Re: FYI GitHub pull request / issue tracker lockdown bot

[John Snow]

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?

--js