On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:40 PM Richard Laager via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> GitLab Abuse folks: > > A user (bot?) named @GitLab-Abuse-Automation closed a bunch of > legitimate NTPsec merge requests: > > > :::snip list of merge requests::: > > > Worse, I (@rlaager) seem to be unable to reopen the MRs, so I can't fix > this. For example, I tried reopening these two: > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/www/-/merge_requests/33 > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/merge_requests/1091 > > > Can you help? > > > Other NTPsec developers are confused too: > > On 12/16/20 12:06 PM, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > Can somebody tell me/us what happened? Why? ... > > On 12/16/20 2:04 PM, James Browning via devel wrote: > > My guess is that GitLab deployed a new bot and it (probably) somewhat > > overzealously closed almost all of the merge requests. > After looking at it a little more it appears that something temporarily disconnected several forked projects and during the disconnect, a perfectly routine bot noticed the projects were 'gone' but did not notice when they 'came back'. As a result, the merge requests can not be reopened as the projects of the source branches are 'gone'. I am probably wrong about this too.
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