that's the question for the designer,
Sebastian (@soehms) IIRC.



On September 1, 2025 11:09:34 AM CDT, 'Martin R' via sage-devel 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Why should a PR go automagically (!) from needs work to needs review after 
>a merge?
>
>Martin
>
>On Monday, 1 September 2025 at 17:38:35 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 04:45:01AM -0700, 'Martin R' via sage-devel wrote:
>> > The problem is that the bot turns tickets from "needs work" to "needs 
>> > review".
>>
>> It's not easy to tell a merge which doesn't fix "needs work" from one
>> that does.
>>
>> One way to deal with this is to mark long-time "needs work" PRs as
>> Draft.
>> (That's a "native" GitHub way to mark PRs which are not ready)
>>
>> > 
>> > On Monday, 1 September 2025 at 01:07:41 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Technically speaking, merging a branch into PR might lead to breaking 
>> > > changes.
>> > > So it's a grey zone.
>> > >
>> > > I would say, if the branch status says that the base branch is 
>> outdated, 
>> > > but "changes can be cleanly merged", there is no pressing need to do 
>> this 
>> > > merge. And if you do the merge please at least check that the CI 
>> continues 
>> > > to be OK. Often it's safe to turn the positive review status back on 
>> after 
>> > > this.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On August 31, 2025 5:31:48 AM CDT, 'Martin R' via sage-devel <
>> > > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Ii is currently a pain to find pull requests that *really* need 
>> review, 
>> > >> because, after every minor release, people tend to merge develop 
>> (which 
>> > >> makes sense), and then some bot changes the label to "needs review", 
>> no 
>> > >> matter what it was before.
>> > >>
>> > >> Can somebody please please fix that?
>> > >>
>> > >> Martin 
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > 
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