I'm OK with this. I'm not sure how effective it will be. It would be nice if we could make the script fire an email to the dev team that a commit needs to be cherry-picked to the 5.1 branch.
Cheers, Wayne On 12/31/19 9:21 AM, Jon Evans wrote: > This is a good point, Eeli. > > Lead devs, what do you think about adding a bright-colored label "needs > cherry pick" that can be removed when the commits are picked to the > required branch? That way, we can run searches for this label and > inspect issues that have it (even if the issue is closed) > > I guess we could also try to make a script to detect possible mistakes: > if an issue is closed and has a 5.x milestone, there should be a commit > on the latest 5.x branch that contains a reference to that issue number. > If we manually ran this check from time to time, we could catch issues > before a release. > > -Jon > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 07:14 Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com > <mailto:eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > There are some problems with bug reports which affect both the > stable branch and the development branch (ATM 5.1.x and 5.99). > > It's not possible to see from the main list of bugs if both versions > are affected. Milestone is only for one. > > It's not possible to handle versions for bug fixes. It's either > closed or opened but if the bug affects both versions, IMO it should > remain open until both have received the fix. And as far as I can > see it's not possible to see which version was fixed. It can be seen > only by going to a commit which fixed it. > > I don't know if it's even theoretically possible to handle > versioning for bugs in gitlab, but it should at least possible to > use tags which would make the states visible. Would that be a good idea? > > (One specific issue is > https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/3711, see the discussion > in > https://forum.kicad.info/t/5-1-5-another-annoying-pcbnew-bug/20407/13 .) > > Eeli Kaikkonen > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
