Re: GitHub mirror creates contribution problems

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 14:41 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On 13 October 2017 at 13:54, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm now getting comments on commits which are really bug reports,
> > like
> > this one:
> > https://github.com/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/commit/c2a40a92fe3df4111ed9da51
> > fe3368c079b86926#commitcomment-24951987
>
> That's a first.

It isn't for me. Stuff like:
https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-bluetooth/commit/231bb6ba015ef32d24ac8d028b10b9081b5b3e8f#commitcomment-15233088
https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/pull/2#issuecomment-187129605

I once received a multi-megabyte dud Pull Request on GitHub by somebody
asking a question instead of sending a mail to an open list mentioned
in the README of that repo, because "Issues" filing was disabled.

> > Do we have any control over what's allowed on our mirrors, or do we
> > need to accept this as yet another source of bug reports, like
> > forums,
> > blog post comments and Twitter/Facebook/Google+ questions?
>
> Pretty much. If there's a comment box, you'll very likely get a
> comment that almost looks like a bug report.
>
> At most, you can be clear on where to file bugs, but playing
> whack-a-mole with the whole Internet ends in disaster.

Are GitHub issues being filed about those problems?