On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 10:23 Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wijaya@gmail.com> wrote:
Right now I'm only using the cherry-pick labels to verify whether a backport has been done or not, so then I can remove the `needs backport to` label from the original PR.

Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that I thought the "needs backport to *" labels should go, my question is about the "cherry-pick for *" labels only.
 
If all of these become automated, then perhaps cherry-pick labels aren't needed.

The "needs backport *" labels will still be needed even in that instance probably for when a backporting PR fails (e.g. merge conflict that requires a human being to resolve).
 

There should still be a bot that removes the `needs backport` label. It will simplify this issue https://github.com/python/bedevere/issues/13

Which we are actively discussing. :)

-Brett
 



Mariatta Wijaya

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 May 2017 at 07:42, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
> Enough people who work on CPython still use email that instead of just using
> labels to flag PRs as cherry-picks we also edit the title, e.g. a 3.6
> cherry-pick will have both a "cherry-pick for 3.6" label and "[3.6]"
> prepended to the title.
>
> My question is whether anyone is actually using the labels? I realize they
> are somewhat redundant when we are also adding the title part. The labels
> are also a friction point with cherry-picker.py as the script can't set
> those automatically like it can the PR title. So I'm thinking that maybe we
> should drop the labels? Anyone have an opinion or want to say if they use
> the labels and how they use them?

I haven't seen a particular use for them - the "needs backport" ones
are useful as a marker for what still needs backporting, but nothing
changes in the process based on whether or not a maintenance branch PR
is a cherry-pick or not.

Cheers,
Nick.

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