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Create system to sync GitHub issues with Phabricator
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Upstream report: https://secure.phabricator.com/T589

Idea from library guidelines RFC:

Can we enable GitHub auth on our Phabricator instance and make a bot that copies issues created on GitHub into Phabricator and leaves a note explaining where to find the resulting discussion? Optimally on resolution the state of the GitHub issue would be updated with another message from the bot and a corresponding status change.

This obviously requires policy discussion.

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See (the very old) https://secure.phabricator.com/T589

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see new comments in T715

Aklapper added a comment.EditedMar 8 2016, 2:29 PM

When it comes to syncing (task summary), https://secure.phabricator.com/T10538 is related.
https://secure.phabricator.com/T589 linked in the task description here is about importing instead.

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Simpler alternative:

  • Write CONTRIBUTING.md explaining that bugs need to be filed on Phabricator (this will be displayed above the edit box when someone tries to file a new issue)
  • Have a bot auto-close issues with a message asking users to resubmit on Phabricator
  • (Optionally, provide an external tool that takes a Github issue URL and converts it into a Phabricator new task URL with prefilled input fields. This seems easier to maintain, and less disruptive when broken, then a proper sync bot.)

(The even simpler alternative that we currently use is to simply disallow issues on Github, but that leaves us without a good way to explain where to go, plus the above mechanism works for pull requests as well, and I don't think there is even a way to disable those.)

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Peachey88 closed this task as Declined.EditedAug 26 2023, 6:58 AM
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I'm bolding declining this for now, We've turned issues off on all our mirrored repos (at least in the WMF org account), I believe the only uses of GitHub issues is the research repos that choose to use them

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