Use pull request templates to discourage pull requests on Gitpan repositories

[oalders]

This might be a good way to prevent pull requests: https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates

[schwern]

It's a good idea. Unfortunately it's implemented by adding files to each repository. That would modify the data that we're archiving. :( Putting it into .github/ is a bit less odious, but still violates the basic idea of Gitpan as an archive.

[ranguard]

I would suggest that making it clear (even going so far as adding a README.md linking to metacpan for the module if one doesn't exist) would help save a lot of people's time.

An archive can have additional information added to it without it being compromised, as long as the additional information is documented as such.

[book]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:46:24AM -0700, Leo Lapworth wrote:

I would suggest that making it clear (even going so far as adding a README.md linking to metacpan for the module if one doesn't exist) would help save a lot of people's time.

An archive can have additional information added to it without it being compromised, as long as the additional information is documented as such.

Instead of adding the README.md to the files (I expect this could cause
problems with distributions that ship a README.md?), what about putting
the README alone on the master branch (so that everyone would see it
when browsing github), with instructions about a cpan (gitpan?) branch
which would contain the history, unchanged.

Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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