Re: Commitfest Update

чт, 31 мар. 2022 г. в 15:09, Matthias van de Meent <
boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 12:56, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-Mar-31, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 02:41:26PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Patches that are Waiting on Author and haven't had activity in months
> > > > -- traditionally they were set to Returned with Feedback. It seems
> the
> > > > feeling these days is to not lose state on them and just move them to
> > > > the next CF. I'm not sure that's wise, it ends up just filling up the
> > > > list with patches nobody's working on.
> > >
> > > +1 for closing such patches as Returned with Feedback, for the same
> reasons
> > > Robert and Peter already stated.
> >
> > Feature request for the commitfest app: any time a patch is closed as
> > RwF, send an automated email replying to the last posted version of the
> > patch, indicating the state change and the URL of the CF entry. That
> > way, if somebody wants to resurrect it later, it's easy to find the CF
> > entry that needs to be edited.
>
> Can normal users actually punt their own patch to a next commitfest?
> All I see for my old patches is the 'change status'-button, and the
> available options are not obviously linked to 'change registration to
> this or upcoming CF'.
> Updating the status of RwF/Rejected patches from previous commitfests
> to Open (to the best of my knowledge) doesn't automatically register
> it to newer CFs, so 'resurrecting' in the CF application can't really
> be done by normal users.
>
> I know that this has happened earlier; where someone re-opened their
> old RwF-patches in closed commitfests; after which those patches got
> lost in the traffic because they are not open in the current (or
> upcoming) commitfests.
>

In my experience, re-applying an updated patch to a new CF is very easy.
You can re-attach the existing discussion thread. The only information that
can be lost is CF-specific fields like reviewer/author which is worth
re-adding manually.

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