Re: [Gluster-devel] Issues and PR's on the GlusterFS github repos

[Justin Clift]

On 28/05/2013, at 2:59 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 28/05/2013, at 2:20 PM, Anand Avati wrote:
>> Thanks for pointing. Disabled Issues. Not sure if Pull Requests can be 
>> disabled?
<snip>

> Just now filled out a "Contact Us" type of request to GitHub to ask if
> there's a way to achieve this.  Let's see if they're receptive or not.

Response from GitHub below.

+ Justin


> From: Haleigh Sheehan <address@hidden> (GitHub Staff)
> Subject: Re: Need a way to *disable* pull requests
> Date: 29 May 2013 12:00:18 AM AEST
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Hi Justin,
> 
> Since a lot of the GitHub magic is centered around pull requests, making it 
> possible for users to disable that function is something we'd have to weigh 
> pretty carefully. I can't make any promises about if we could do this, or 
> when, but I've passed your email on to the rest of the team to consider. You 
> do make some pretty good points!
> 
> In the meantime, you could reduce some of your unwanted pull request volume 
> by including a CONTRIBUTING file (ie: "Don't."), and adding a prominent note 
> to the README also summarizing the contributing guidelines. You can find out 
> more here:
> https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
> 
> Thanks for the feedback! Please let me know if you have any other questions.


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