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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to send revision patches to old issues in DEBBUGS so Guix QA can look at them?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:36:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734yay3yb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsg1E9qUpYkyiR7pHy_CdeMQ58362=OL-dCLojL3zXG2pwosA@mail.gmail.com> (Andy Tai's message of "Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:46:17 -0700")

Hi Andy,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> Hi, per Chris's recent comments, Guix QA only looks at (a window of)
> recently created issues due to storage space limitations, which is
> understandable.
>
> However, if I have update (package definition) patches to not very
> recent issues, such as some stale issues sitting there for some time,
> Guix QA does not pick these revisions up.  Then these revisions will
> not be reviewed and would not be merged.
>
> Ideally, Guix QA should look at recent patch submissions to the
> guix-patches mailing list but not sure if that is easy to implement.
>
> Then what is the best way to make recent patches to old issues covered
> by Guix QA?  I tried to create new issues and then merge old issues
> into the new ones but that is probably not a good way to go or good
> thing to do.

After rebasing the old series locally, you can send it to the *same bug
ID* with a bumped version (e.g. git send-email -v2
... --to=NNNNN@debbugs.gnu.org).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-14 20:46 How to send revision patches to old issues in DEBBUGS so Guix QA can look at them? Andy Tai
2023-10-16 15:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-10-16 15:59   ` Andy Tai
2023-10-16 16:26     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-17 17:39 ` Christopher Baines

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