[Toybox] GitHub Apps - Repo Lockdown · GitHub

[enh]

If we're lucky, Eric will know how to set them up to go to the mailing
list...

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 11:45 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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