[webkit-dev] review flags (was bugs in pending-commit)

[Antonio Gomes]

Personally, I like this pattern a lot.

Would it also be helpful when sheriff bot rolls out a patch to attach the
rolled out patch with a nice description like ROLLOUT(rXXXXX) to the bug?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Antonio Gomes wrote:
> >
> >> I actually do not like the way the review flags are cleared today only
> in order to make the tools and pending-xxx pages happier. IMO the review
> flags give much about the history of the bug. In that matter, I dislike
> webkit-patch's ways of clearing "r-" flags of patches while it marks it as
> obsolete and uploads a new one. Reason: an easy-to-see r-'ed patch is very
> helpful to me to understand the chronological progresses in the bug.
> >
> > I agree that it would be clearer to leave review flags for clarity about
> the history of a patch. I also have been irritated by our work flow that
> involves clearing review flags to appease the tools.
> >
> > However, even if we fixed everything so that was no longer necessary, I
> would still want a way to clearly communicate “this patch is known to be bad
> and not suitable for landing, despite the fact that a reviewer approved it
> at one point”.
> >
> > And I also think that if we were redesigning the bug system it would be
> good if there was a way to communicate that a patch was landed other than
> having a bug marked RESOLVED, because people continue to put multiple
> patches in a single bug, and so the bugs state can’t really tell us the
> status of a patch.
>
> I'm happy to change webkit-patch to change the descriptions on patches
> to prefix "LANDED(r12354):" when landing/obsoleting, etc. if you think
> that would help.
>
> -eric
>
> >    -- Darin
> >
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