[Gluster-Maintainers] Handling github PRs

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:43:44PM -0500, Shyam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We do not accept github PRs as our work flow is gerrit based.
> 
> To educate contributors, one of the things we could do is to put up a
> template as in [1] for the PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE. It will look like this [2]
> when users attempt to submit PRs.
> 
> An alternate idea suggested by Nigel was to accept PRs, but use a Jenkins
> job to auto close the same, with some generic (or very specific)
> instructions on how to submit it to our gerrit instance.
> 
> The advantage of the latter method is that we do not lose the code change
> suggested, and we can still evaluate the same and reach out to the
> contributor and also possibly get the change into our gerrit instance.
> 
> The latter approach looks good, wanted to run this by other maintainers for
> their thoughts.

How many PR's do we get? If it is 'a lot', then the time to invest in
the 2nd approach would be ok, otherwise a simple template is probably
sufficient (and Nigel can spend his time on more urgent tasks).

Niels


> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam
> 
> [1] PR template:
> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/16618/1/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE
> 
> [2] How a PR template appears to contributors:
> https://goo.gl/photos/xxc8j3myqzD9tME98
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