(The last message got signing messed up, sorry) On 2025-08-14T22:21:56+0200, Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it>: > Hello, > > I do not want merge requests from random people. I want a bugreport > with an attached patch. How can I signal this to people? (without > spending an inordinate amount of time in salsa to click around and > disable merge requests entirely).
I don't really know about a way to signal such without disabling MRs, nobody reads project descriptions, and for salsa, even READMEs. Maybe [MR templates], though that's kinda unfriendly for the other side.
If you do want to disable them, here are some instructions to make it faster:
- Web interface
1. Go to repository
2. On the left sidebar, click Settings - General
3. Click to expand "Visibility, project features, permissions"
4. Under "Repository", uncheck "Merge requests"
5. Scroll down a bit and click "Save changes"
- API, practically also CLI
0. Get a personal access token at
https://salsa.debian.org/-/user_settings/personal_access_tokens?scopes=api,write_repository
1. `curl --request PUT --url
https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/<id> --header 'PRIVATE-TOKEN:
<personal-access-token>' --header 'content-type: application/json'
--data '{"merge_requests_access_level": "disabled"}'`
1. `<id>` could be (1) the numeric project ID, which is shown in the
pop-up menu when you click the ⋮ button at the upper right corner on the
"home" page of the project, or in Settings - General; (2)
`<owner>%2f<project>`
2. Add `"issues_access_level": "disabled"` to the JSON after `--data`
in 2 and you get to also disable the cursed issues!
3. Free takeaway: `curl
https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/users/<username>/projects | jq
'.[].name'` (or `/groups/<group>/projects`) (or `'.[].id')
- glab (GitLab CLI): AFAIK it doesn't have a "porcelain" command for
that, and the "plumbing" command (`glab api`) is essentially just
calling the API
[MR templates]: https://salsa.debian.org/help/user/project/merge_requests/_index.md#use-merge-request-templates
Bonus chatter: I can't have the original email to reply to because I'm only subscribed to d-d-digest, or download the eml/mbox/whatever from https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00177.html because it doesn't have such feature, and the "Reply to" links there don't include the original body, so I have to copy paste the quote above from the web archive. Surely very "tricky" and filters out a lot of low quality contributions.
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