"Your Outstanding Requests" on closed bugs

[Petr Spacek]

On 2.4.2015 01:58, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:56 -0400, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> Humans I can
>>> understand having different views, but the tools should provide 
>>> the humans with
>>> what we need here.  In this case I think that means one of the 
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1) Require that the bot ignore bugs that are closed (assuming a 
>>> majority
>>> consensus agrees, which I understand isn't likely to happen)
>>>
>>> 2) Require that the bot be configurable by individuals to 
>>> optionally ignore
>>> (1)
>>
>> Surely the right thing is to not have any “unreviewed” patches in a 
>> closed bug by the time the bug is closed.  (New unreviewed patches 
>> could arrive after the bug has been closed, same as new comments, 
>> but that is AFAICS not the situation prompting this thread.)  
>> Ignoring the inconsistent state of unreviewed patches in a closed 
>> bug is at best a band-aid.
>>
>> If we modify bugzilla at all, I would suggest to modify it as to 
>> resolve the review flags in patches while closing a bug (by marking 
>> them as reviewed, as refused, by dropping the review=? flags, or 
>> perhaps by saking).
> 
> The mails do not just cover patch review. They cover the 'needinfo' 
> state as well: you get a reminder for any bug which has a 'needinfo' 
> flag set for you.

Which is IMHO a Good Thing. I personally add needinfo? to closed bugs when I
need to get more information about the issue, e.g. when writing a test for it
or so.

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Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat