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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:28:35
Message-Id: 1509539307.839.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests by Mart Raudsepp
1 W dniu śro, 01.11.2017 o godzinie 13∶32 +0200, użytkownik Mart Raudsepp
2 napisał:
3 > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 01.11.2017 kell 09:00, kirjutas Michał Górny:
4 > > W dniu śro, 01.11.2017 o godzinie 12∶48 +1300, użytkownik Kent
5 > > Fredric
6 > > napisał:
7 > > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:19:30 +0100
8 > > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
9 > > >
10 > > > > The harm is that issues are left unnoticed, and users are left
11 > > > > on the ice.
12 > > >
13 > > > That's exactly the problem with bugzilla today.
14 > > >
15 > > > We're not closing bugzilla.
16 > > >
17 > > > Closing PR's as an option doesn't improve the situation.
18 > > >
19 > > > Closing bugs due to being open more than a month doesn't help users
20 > > > either, it just pisses them off further.
21 > >
22 > > The difference is that Bugzilla has a clear assignment rules, and
23 > > unless
24 > > one screws them up, we can monitor the situation and reassign them as
25 > > inactive maintainers are removed.
26 > >
27 > > PRs are pretty much one big bucket of mess, and the more of them are
28 > > open, the harder it is to figure out what they are about and what's
29 > > the status of them.
30 > >
31 > > And yes, GitHub sucks at this.
32 >
33 > Could we tell non-proxy-maint PRs to establish a cross-reference
34 > between a bugzilla entry and the GH PR? Then if a bugzilla entry
35 > exists, which points at the PR (via URL, See Also, something new or
36 > whatever we decide suitable), the PR is kept open after that one week,
37 > otherwise automatically closed with info how to create a bugzilla entry
38 > for this and re-open the PR?
39 >
40
41 Technically I don't see why it wouldn't be possible if you did the work.
42
43 --
44 Best regards,
45 Michał Górny