From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Basic questions about the triage process
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:06:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fjvyole.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oad7b845.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:38:18 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > One needs to read the error message and resubmit the control message
>> > modified as appropriate. E.g., one example I tend to bump into is
>> > when I merge a bug with another one, and debbugs refuses because their
>> > state is different -- in that case one needs to change the state of
>> > one of the two bugs and then resubmit the merge directive.
>>
>> Is there some reason not to use forcemerge?
>
> It still requires a new control message, so what I said is still
> valid. And as long as you do have to send a new control message, why
> not do it right?
>
> Also, note this caveat:
>
>> Note: you cannot merge with an archived bug - you must unarchive it first.
>
> IOW, even forcemerge won't always work.
debbugs-gnu could automate this scenario, in case it is desired. Just
request it :-)
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-31 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-28 5:39 Basic questions about the triage process Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-28 8:58 ` Michael Albinus
2015-12-28 16:25 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-28 17:35 ` Michael Albinus
2015-12-28 20:24 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 5:40 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-29 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-30 0:22 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-30 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-31 1:19 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-12-31 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-31 9:06 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2015-12-31 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-31 13:57 ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-07 21:04 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-07 22:05 ` Andy Moreton
2016-01-07 22:40 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-09 3:46 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-28 23:55 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-29 0:38 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-29 0:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-29 0:59 ` Andrew Hyatt
2015-12-29 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-29 1:21 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 1:50 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-02 21:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-15 20:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-29 6:46 ` CHENG Gao
2015-12-29 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:03 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-12-29 17:16 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 23:36 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 21:09 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-07 21:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-09 3:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-09 20:56 ` John Wiegley
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