Create issue template to redirect people to official GitHub community#295
Create issue template to redirect people to official GitHub community#295aspiers wants to merge 1 commit into
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This repository was created for a specific purpose, which was
fulfilled back in 2016. However people are still submitting issues
about GitHub to the repository's issue tracker. This effectively
fragments and weakens the GitHub community, because
https://github.com/isaacs/github
was already established in 2013 for the same purpose, and has acquired
very significant momentum since then. It is more efficient for the
community to pool its efforts in a single place, so make an issue
template which explains the current situation and encourages people
to submit issues to isaacs instead of here.
This partially addresses dear-github#207. When combined with a PR auto-closer
bot as suggested in
isaacs/github#1191
the combination could be considered as a full solution for dear-github#207.
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Probably better to just archive this repository, which will make it read-only |
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@koenpunt Archiving sounds like a good idea, but there still needs to be a redirect to |
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Can a maintainer review this please? |
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The isaacs repo is long gone and Github has official community feedback
Check out https://github.com/community |
aspiers
changed the title
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Updated title and description accordingly. |
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@aspiers Honestly, since your original issue, this repo has become stale/obsolete, attracting spam, mostly. It's probably time to archive it (since enough time now) in favor of the official, Isaacs', knowing it can always be unarchived later, e.g., whenever GitHub reaches enshittification lvl 3, since we're pretty much already @ lvl 2. |
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For me it reached level 3 the moment they implemented my worst case scenario of community neglect / takeover despite my very polite request to do otherwise. I'm very grateful there are many good FOSS alternatives like GitLab and others, but sadly this hasn't prevented the whole world from unnecessarily locking ourselves into huge reliance on GitHub. A real own goal 😢 |
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UPDATE: since https://github.com/isaacs/github was (wrongly, IMHO) archived, there is an official GitHub community discussion forum, so dear-github should redirect to that now.
Original text below:
This repository was created for a specific purpose, which was fulfilled back in 2016. However people are still submitting issues about GitHub to the repository's issue tracker. This effectively fragments and weakens the GitHub community, because https://github.com/isaacs/github was already established in 2013 for the same purpose, and has acquired very significant momentum since then. It is more efficient for the community to pool its efforts in a single place, so make an issue template which explains the current situation and encourages people to submit issues to isaacs instead of here.
This partially addresses #207. When combined with a PR auto-closer bot as suggested in isaacs/github#1191, the combination could be considered as a full solution for #207.