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From: Alex Waters <ampedal@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Issue / Pulls timers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:34:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL0fb60XRvgSxL6OPQ0r_tK5RvCny_B8ECU7VCk8D9RJcU3Q2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8xBpdF88tTHOT40=-9enrb4hsekexELSrctdHDK8QqWxGVXw@mail.gmail.com>

> We need to avoid a user/contributor experience of:  "my pull request
> was abruptly closed with no warning"

I agree, I definitely want to go about this in a non-jerk way. I would
be pissed if I spent hours coding something, and it was put on the
back burner and eventually closed (especially without notice). The
wording and process could use refinement.

> Contributors might not track the state of the tree on a day-to-day
> basis.  Thus, following the example of bugzilla.redhat.com and many
> other "tracker" applications, outdated issues first initiate an
> automated warning email -- usually by adding a comment to the bug
> report -- that describes the policy, why the policy (closing outdated
> reports) exists, and how to avoid automated report closure.

I can definitely do this, and give a wordy notice before I start the
timer. I will write up a message that links to a rebase walkthrough
(any suggestions? I think Gavin has one somewhere...), I would like it
to be more detailed than GitHub's walk-through.

My main reason for pushing this is that it will help clear out some of
the older pulls/issues that exist right now. I'm hoping that in the
future, the QA process will be good enough that pulls/issues won't
fall behind from lack of testing - and the timers will be used very
sparingly. It should only be in place to sort out the pulls/issues
that the majority doesn't want included in the client.



      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20  0:20 [Bitcoin-development] Issue / Pulls timers Alex Waters
2011-09-20 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-09-21  2:34   ` Alex Waters [this message]

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