All sounds very sensible to me. On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 2:17 PM Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote:
> tl;dr. I would like feedback on a few proposed changes [1] to our merge > request workflow. > > > Hello everyone, > > Over the past six months I have been monitoring the operation of our > merge request workflow, which arose rather organically in the wake of > the initial move to GitLab. While it works reasonably well, there is > clearly room for improvement: > > * we have no formal way to track the status of in-flight merge > requests (e.g. for authors to mark an MR as ready for review or > reviewers to mark work as ready for merge) > > * merge requests still at times languish without review > > * the backport protocol is somewhat error prone and requires a great > deal of attention to ensure that patches don't slip through the > cracks > > * there is no technical mechanism to prevent that under-reviewed > patches from being merged (either intentionally or otherwise) to > `master` > > To address this I propose [1] a few changes to our workflow: > > 1. Define explicit phases of the merge request lifecycle, > systematically identified with labels. This will help to make it > clear who is responsible for a merge request at every stage of its > lifecycle. > > 2. Make it clear that it is the contributor's responsibility to > identify reviewers for their merge requests. > > 3. Institute a final pre-merge sanity check to ensure that > patches are adequately reviewed, documented, tested, and have had > their ticket and MR metadata updated. > > Note that this is merely a proposal; I am actively seeking input from > the developer community. Do let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > [1] > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/proposals/merge-request-workflow > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- *Shayne Fletcher* Language Engineer */* +1 917 699 7663 *Digital Asset* <https://digitalasset.com/>, creators of *DAML <https://daml.com/>* -- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.digitalasset.com/emaildisclaimer.html <http://www.digitalasset.com/emaildisclaimer.html>. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message.
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