Open-source, not open-contribution

Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by rectang on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:28AM (#25942189)

Is it possible to "archive" and then "unarchive" a Github repo using the Github API?

If so, one possible solution is to maintain the primary repo elsewhere (Source Hut, Gitlab. wherever), and run a sync routine on a cron (or perhaps every push):

1. unarchive Github mirror repo

2. Push changes from primary repo to Github mirror

3. archive Github mirror repo

There's a race condition where someone might see the unarchived repo and start a pull request during the brief period where the sync is taking place, but the possibility that they'd both start and then fisish a pull request during sync periods seems remote.

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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by gregoriol on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:47AM (#25942474)

The problem with archive is that it looks like "not maintained anymore"/"deprecated", which is not the case here.

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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by rectang on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:59AM (#25942713)

I agree, it's a hack. This hack competes with the "auto-close all pull requests" hack.

Which hack you would choose depends on how important it is never to see pull requests (e.g. for IP reasons as described elsethread).

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