On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 at 13:58 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Cheryl Sabella kindly migrated a patch I'd put on bpo some time ago
but forgotten about onto github. The PR (#6158) is ready to go (I
think) but this is the first time since the migration to github that
I've done a merge, and I'm not quite sure what the workflow is :-( I
didn't see much in the devguide (which covers how to write a PR, how
to test it etc, but not so much how to merge it, unless I missed
something, or it's so simple that the little I did find is all that's
needed!)

It's pretty simple at this point. :) Obviously feel free to open an issue on the devguide to add a checklist on how to do the final commit appropriately since this should be documented somewhere.
 

Am I right that all I need to do is hit "Squash and Merge", tidy up
the commit message, and that's it for master?

Pretty much! Just remember to tidy up the title as well like Ivan pointed out (replace "#NNNNN" with "GH-NNNN").
 
This is a doc change
which should probably go into 3.7 - so I presume I just add the "Needs
backport" label and Miss Islington does the rest? (I assume doc fixes
are still OK for 3.7 at this point?)

Just make sure to add the labels before the merge. Then after the merge the issue will get a comment pointing to the backported PR. Go over there and approve the new PR, then miss-islington will handle the final merge.
 

Is there anything else I've missed? (Do I need another approver? I'm
assuming not, for a doc fix).

Not really; it's mostly outlined above.
 

Sorry for the dumb questions - if I've missed a glaringly obvious
explanation, feel free to let me know. I'm just a little nervous that
it's *so* simple I feel I must have missed something!


:) Yeah, it's like when your tests pass the first time. It seems too good to be true. :)
 
Paul

PS Thanks to everyone who has worked on the new github workflow. What
I've done so far has been really straightforward, and if I'm right in
what I think I need to do above, then you've made the rest of the
process beautifully simple, too!

We have tried. :)