Hello,

Following my previous e-mail last month, thank you for responding.  I almost immediately got two reviewers who posted helpful comments on my PR which I believe have all been resolved now.

Today, I got a notification to say my branch is stale again so wanted to understand what the next steps are.

Is there anything else I can do to get my PR merged? This is my first time submitting a PR to Cpython so not sure of the workflow, or if I have missed something so would appreciate your guidance.

SIDE QUESTION: Also, when I originally submitted this PR, I used a different Git config and user called "KillerKode" - however I was asked to change this, which is totally understandable so I changed everything to my name, however the commit history of that PR now contains some commits from my old Git config (as KillerKode) and some with my new Git config (as Faisal Mahmood).  I am wondering, when this gets merged, how can I make sure that the commits are squashed and any history of my previous git config (i.e. KillerKode) do not show?

Kind regards,

Faisal.

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 14:20, Faisal Mahmood <fasial.mahmood94@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I hope you are all well, I currently have an issue / merge request that has become stale and as per the guidelines I am sending this e-mail to request someone to review it for me please.

Issue Number: 42861 (https://bugs.python.org/issue42861)
Pull Request: 24180 (https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24180)

This is my first contribution to CPython and I am very keen to get this added as I think it is an almost essential enhancement missing from the ipaddress module.  I would greatly appreciate if someone can take a look and give me feedback, I am more than happy to help explain things, as I appreciate this is not the most straightforward thing to do.

Effectively, this method allows you to get the next closest network of any prefix size, it works by effectively adding 1 to the host portion of the network.  There is actually a very nice guide someone made on stackexchange explaining how to do this calculation manually, I simply followed this logic and have tested it as much as possible and it seems to work great.  See here: https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/7106/how-do-you-calculate-the-prefix-network-subnet-and-host-numbers/53994#53994

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help get this merged.

Kind regards,

Faisal.