[core-workflow] GitHub reviews comments on b.p.o

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:00:09 -0700, Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Anish Shah <shah.anish07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it checks if any "GitHub" comment was added in last "X" minutes. If no
> > GitHub comments were added, then it adds that comment to the linked issue.
> 
>  I guess, you meant, "if any comments were added to GitHub issues".
> So, it does polling instead of any real-time event notifications.
> 
> The Github PR comments also have a context associated with it, which
> are are useful while reviewing. Adding those context in the b.p.o
> comments can cause a churn.

I've never found that context useful, myself.  It should be possible to
mechanically strip it.

> Instead of adding comments to b.p.o, have you considered sending only
> the emails notifications nosy list?  Just like reitveld does right
> now?

The general consensus (a while back) was that the fact that reitveld
doesn't update the bug tracker issue is a bug, and we're trying to fix
that :)

--David