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 outdated, 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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