Re: pending-pullups

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

dholland@ 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.

Why do you think two independent states are necessary? What's benefit?

"pending-pullups without ticket" implies that
releng should check whether it should be really pulled up or not
before starting actual release procedure.

"pending-pullups with ticket" are handled by the own tracking system
 http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-7.cgi
and not by gnats, it seems.

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Izumi Tsutsui