handling of pull requests from new contributors

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/10/2020 19:38, Stuart Marks wrote:
> :
>
> A second issue, one that's currently blocking this PR, is that it's 
> been failed by jcheck because the commit message needs to refer to an 
> issue. There's no issue, so the submitter tried to create an issue. 
> But one needs an account to create an issue, so the submitter tried to 
> create an account. They found the right issue tracker (JBS) but 
> there's no way to create an account from there, and there's nothing 
> that points them to information about needing an Author role to create 
> a JBS account, and what it takes to get the Author role.
This might be worth bringing to skara-dev for discussion. It might be 
that the BOT could add a comment when a PR can't be linked to a JBS 
issue and that comment could explain to the submitter that they may need 
to come to the mailing list to find a sponsor. In many cases it is 
helpful to have the discussion on the mailing list first anyway. I'm not 
saying the Guide doesn't need to cover this too of course.

-Alan.