Re: Process for reviewing patches as someone without commit access

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon, Chris,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Chris, all,
>
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 at 16:55, Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
>
>> Once we know what tags to use, I can have the QA frontpage do something
>> similar to the "Mark as moreinfo" links, so it's easy to just click a
>> button then send the email to change the state of a issue.
>
> That’s cool!
>
> Well, using emacs-debbugs and then
>
>     C-u M-x debbugs-gnu-usertags guix-patches RET
>
> the list of usertags is:
>
>         guix-patches  for-core-updates
>         guix-patches  reviewed-looks-good
>
> And if instead of guix-patches we consider guix then it reads,
>
>         guix  build-system
>         guix  cross-compilation
>         guix  for-core-updates
>         guix  looks-good
>         guix  patch
>         guix  plz-work
>         guix  powerpc64le-linux
>         guix  ready-to-review
>         guix  reproducibility
>         guix  reviewed
>         guix  reviewed-looks-good
>         guix  test-tag
>         guix  v1.3.0
>
> However, I do not know how to list all the bugs for the package
> guix-patches that matches the usertag reviewed-looks-good.  Anyway!

Clicking on an entry in the above list shows them; I'm sure we could
define a procedure to directly show the bugs associated with a usertag,
which would be useful.

> I think that the usertag ’reviewed’ is a good idea.  That would be a
> very good start.  Then if it helps, we could add other usertags as
> reviewed-julia for patches that the Julia team can merge.

+1 for the 'reviewed' usertag (using the 'guix' user).

> Discussing about idea, would it be possible that the QA infrastructure
> automatically send a message to Debbugs for tagging?  For example, the
> usertag ’qa-ok’ or whatever other meaningful name. :-)

+1 for that as well, maybe 'qa-passed'.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim