On Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 1:41:12 AM UTC-8, Graeme McCutcheon wrote: > When mozilla-inbound was born, it becames custom to annotate the > whiteboard of bugs that were not to be resolved when the sheriffs merged > inbound to mozilla-central. Eventually mcMerge was written for the > sheriffs, which automated much of the post-merge Bugzilla updating. It > too watched for common annotations to prevent bug resolution. However, > sometimes it would get it wrong. Developers who infrequently need this > behaviour would likely have to stop what they were doing, and wander > over to IRC to find a sheriff in order to determine what the correct > incantation is. > > To that end, a 'leave-open' keyword has now been added to Bugzilla to > nail down the syntax of the annotation. mcMerge has been updated, so the > keyword is ready for use. (It continues to inspect the whiteboard, so > there is no need to update extant bugs). > > > Graeme > -- > http://www.graememcc.co.uk > https://twitter.com/graememcc
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