[python-committers] Orphaned backports
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Apr 22 14:27:16 EDT 2018
On 4/22/2018 12:16 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> miss-islington is an awesome bot! It makes fixing bugs in multiple
> versions much simpler. You need just accept automatically created
> backporting PRs.
>
> But there is a downside. miss-islington makes the life so easier, that
> sometimes you forgot about not finished backports. miss-islington can
> fail to backport some changes for different reasons. Currently on GitHub
> there are tens merged PRs labeled for backporting, but backports were
> not finished. Please take attention if your PRs in one of the following
> lists:
Does github allow repository owners to send email directly to people who
have submitted PRs or at least, people with commit privileges (in this
case, those whose have done particular merges)?
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=label%3A%22needs+backport+to+3.7%22+is%3Aclosed
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=label%3A%22needs+backport+to+3.6%22+is%3Aclosed
Several of these were closed without merging and should not and cannot
be backported. For instance, you closed
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4225
after you submitted and merged a replacement.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6259
Stripping backport labels off of rejected PRs could be considered. But
this would toss information needed for a new PR if the bpo issue is
open. Expecting either the submitter or merged of a replacement to go
back and clean up the original seems a bit much. The submitter might
not be able to, and the merger might not know or forget that the PR is a
replacement. Perhaps rejected PRs should just be ignored.
Replacing 'closed' with 'merged' excludes rejected PRs.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=label%3A%22needs+backport+to+3.6%22+is%3Amerged
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=label%3A%22needs+backport+to+2.7%22+is%3Aclosed
https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=label%3A%22needs+backport+to+2.7%22+is%3Amerged
The 2.7 backport of https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3639
is yours.
tjr
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