Approving a patch
Kubilay Kocak
koobs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 4 10:05:59 UTC 2015
On 4/03/2015 9:00 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
>
>> On 3 March 2015, at 22:45, Kubilay Kocak <koobs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Canonically and preferred:
>>
>> Set maintainer-approval flag to + *on the attachment/patch*.
>>
>> The maintainer-feedback flag is at the issue/bug scope, not the
>> attachment/patch scope.
>>
>> This of course requires the maintainer-approval flag was set to ? with
>> your email as the value first.
>>
>> Currently this is not automatic, but *should be* if there is an
>> attachment of type: patch in the issue. I'll create an issue for that
>> now for bugmeister@ to look into addressing.
>>
>> Only in cases where maintainer-approval is *not* already set to"?", is
>> using the maintainer-feedback flag + comment flow OK.
>>
>> Setting maintainer-feedback is ambiguous, and is used to prove
>> 'acknowledgement' of an issue or question.
>>
>> This is especially the case when there are multiple version of patches,
>> or patches from multiple contributors. In future it will be used to
>> derive "maintainer timeouts" to kick issues along, and open them up for
>> someone else to make a decision on.
>>
>> tldr; Set the maintainer-approval flag to +
>>
>
> Thanks to all who replied. I found and set the maintainer-feedback flag at the issue/bug scope. I couldn’t find any similar flag at the attachment/patch scope. Nothing there was really applicable.
>
Which issue?
More information about the freebsd-ports
mailing list