Re: We're getting close to the end of 2020-01 CF

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:09:39PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 05:20:17PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> Yeah, you're right returning them with feedback seems more appropriate,
>> given the long inactivity. Plus, the CF app apparently does not allow
>> moving WoA patches to the next CF anyway.
>
>FWIW, I tend to take a base of two weeks as a sensible period of
>time as that's half the CF period when I do the classification job.
>

Yeah. I've only nagged about patches that have been set to WoA before
the CF began, so far.

>> Those are the patches that have been set as WoA before this CF, and have
>> not been updated since. It's quite possible the state is stale for some
>> of those patches, although I've tried to check if there were any
>> messages on the list.
>
>You need to be careful about bug fixes, as these are things that we
>don't want to lose track of. Another thing that I noticed in the past
>is that some patches are registered as bug fixes, but they actually
>implement a new feature. So there can be tricky cases.
>--

Makes sense.

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