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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > I just pushed to rjbs/github-notices: > > commit a9fa862efc67434a6a880ded4f7af9cacb0f67ac > Author: Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> > Date: Sat Apr 9 08:26:56 2016 -0400 > > add files to dissuade users from filing GH pull requests > > This adds two files to the .github directory. These would be displayed to > users > attempting to file pull requests on the GitHub mirror. This happens > rarely, > but often enough that it would be good to try to avoid it. GitHub will not > allow us to simply disable PRs. > > This branch fails tests. > > If the files are not in the MANIFEST, this is a failure. If they *are* in > the > manifest, there is a porting failure because directories beginning with > dots > are not allowed. > > Is there an existing solution to this that I'm unaware of? Do we really > need > these files in the manifest, since we don't need them in release tarballs? > > I don't mind spending more effort here, but I'm hoping someone knows the > almost-no-effort solution already. This sounds like we want a MANIFEST.SKIP file, much like we're currently using in CPAN modules. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next