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by coldpie 2090 days ago
> PM from GitHub here

Hey totally off topic sorry. Can you get someone to turn off pull-requests for the unofficial mirrors that you guys created for some open source projects? Users are being mislead into thinking opening PRs there is productive, but they're not monitored by our project and we don't own the repo anyway. https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/pulls

I've tried contacting your support, but they just tell me that they don't own the repo, which is obviously false[1]. I don't know who to reach out to.

[1] https://github.community/t/how-is-the-mirrored-from-annotati...

2 comments

I had no idea that we do that, but I can try to hunt it down internally for you. Ping me an email - greysteil@github.com.
You may take a page from FFmpeg: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls (although currently open PRs probably need to be closed somehow for that to be effective).
Apparently that doesn't work much better: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed Regardless, it's kind of crappy that we have to clean up after GitHub's mess.