On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:37:10 -0500 Gordon Pettey <petteyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 11:11 AM Joonas Niilola <juip...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > > > Another big issue is as mjo pointed out, not everyone uses GH. > > > > "Not using GitHub" is not an excuse for a PR to sit ignored when it > has a bug attachment. Anyone can view a PR anonymously and clone the > remote from the read-only https URL. There's no "using github" > required for that beyond clicking the link in the attached bug to see > the PR and the remote repository name. For the 202 "bug linked" > (excluding "new package") PRs, ~50% are more than 6 months old. While > that doesn't necessarily mean they've been ignored (for the "not > using GitHub" devs, the code could've been merged that way without > any interaction on the GH PR, then it would be up to the submitter to > close the PR), it still doesn't look great. You can just add a "Closes:" tag with the github PR url to the commit message for it to be closed automatically. Using app-portage/pram can also streamline the process of merging the commit. And if there are any issues that need to be communicated there is e-mail or even irc in some cases.
