Re: Install github app to automatically close PRs on github mirror

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:00 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Justin Clift (justin(at)postgresql(dot)org) wrote:
> > On 2019-06-17 23:27, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >Thanks for your Pull Request! :) This repo on GitHub is just a
> > >mirror of our real git repositories though, and can't really handle
> > >PRs. :( Hopefully you can redo the PR, and direct it to the
> > >git.postgresql.org repos? We have a developer guide, if that
> > >helps:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F.
> > >If this was a PR for pgAdmin, please visit
> > >https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/dev/submitting_patches.html.
> >
> > Hmmm... that wall of text really could do with breaking up if possible.
>
> Agreed.
>
> What about:
>
> --------------
> Thanks for your Pull Request! :) This repo on GitHub is just a
> mirror of our real git repository (which lives on git.postgresql.org)
> though, and can't really handle PRs. :(
>

I would say "don't work with" rather than "can't handle".

If you'd like to see this change in PostgreSQL, please check out our
> developer guide, here:
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F
>
> If this was a PR for pgAdmin, please see this guide instead:
>
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/dev/submitting_patches.html
> --------------
>

That does sound a lot better. It should also include pgweb, which also has
a mirror there.

Telling people to direct their PR to the git.postgresql.org repos
> doesn't really make sense...
>
>
Indeed. +1.

//Magnus