[Toybox] GitHub Apps - Repo Lockdown · GitHub

[Rob Landley]

On 8/16/20 10:23 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 8/16/20 2:31 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
>> https://github.com/apps/repo-lockdown 
>>
>> Turns out there is a way to automate telling folks with pull requests to try the
>> mailing list instead. See link.
>>
>> (This came up on the tzdata mailing list. I have no personal experience.)
> 
> Eh, its not a huge deal. The list is my personal preference, but wget pull
> request plus ".patch" on the end feeds straight into "git am".
> 
> There's a generational divide between old people who grew up on mailing lists
> and younguns who grew up on web forums. People young enough that "here's a list
> of 37 websites that went away, you can't archive this and will lose your
> history" gets responded to with "I was 4 when that happened, who cares what
> happens in 10 years that's forever, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it,
> and just because it's happened like clockwork for decades doesn't mean it'll
> happen AGAIN"...
> 
> As I said, "wide net". The real history is the git commit log I suppose...

That said, I will not respond to "commit comments", ala:

https://github.com/landley/mkroot/commit/43b99b53b6c1a05fb81d6edc8a1610eff6084b3c#commitcomment-41232970

Because there is absolutely no way to find them again. Pull requests and issues
you can navigate through a full historical list of on the web page. That stuff?
Nope.

(The answer in this case is "because I haven't implemented built-in sha256
support yet and neither defconnfig nor the binaries I ship has sha256 support
yet, it's only currently available with libssl enabled.)

If I could block THOSE, I would do so. Culture or no culture, them's is
counterproductiveness.

Rob