Re: pending-pullups

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Nov 29,  3:31am, David Holland wrote:
} On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:10:45AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
}  > dholland@ wrote:
}  > 
}  > > the state for "pullups are needed" is, alas, "open"
}  > 
}  > Where is it documented?
}  > 
}  > http://www.netbsd.org/support/send-pr.html says:
}  > >> open
}  > >>  The initial state of a Problem Report. This means the PR has been
}  > >>  filed and the responsible person(s) notified. 
}  >  :
}  > >> pending-pullups
}  > >>  The problem has been confirmed as being solved in -current and
}  > >>  is waiting for pullups to the appropriate active branches.
}  > >>  The PR remains in this state until the pullups are completed. 
} 
} That can be read either way, so possibly the answer is: nowhere.
} 
} sigh.
} 
} I will fix it, but not this weekend.
} 
} (the reason, besides "that's how it's been used since it was added",
} is that the pending-pullups state distinguishes "PRs that somebody
} needs to work on" from "PRs that are waiting on releng", which is an
} important distinction when looking for work to do.)
} 
} we ought to have a pullups-needed state; maybe we should just add it
} to gnats.

     pending-pullups is a state that we added.  No reason we couldn't
add pullups-needed.  Would be a useful thing to distinguish from
something that hasn't been fixed.

}-- End of excerpt from David Holland