Flaw in our process for dealing with trivial changes

Richard Levitte levitte at openssl.org
Fri Dec 13 12:43:56 UTC 2019


https://github.com/openssl/tools/pull/49

Quite an exercise, I think my python-fu has increased significantly.

I have *no* idea how to debug CGI stuff in a sensible way, suggestions
welcome!

Cheers,
Richard

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:08:42 +0100,
Richard Levitte wrote:
> 
> clacheck modification coming up!
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 04:48:38 +0100,
> Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > A better example of this problem: #10607.  Both Paul and I approved it yesterday and I merged it
> > today without noticing until too late that it was tagged “CLA: trivial” :(
> > I’ve not reverted it at this point but will if necessary.
> > 
> > Let’s get the label in.
> > 
> > Pauli
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> > 
> >     On 13 Dec 2019, at 11:02 am, Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org> wrote:
> >    
> >     On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:31:10 +0100,
> >     Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> > 
> >         A red blocker along the lines of: “Triviality Unconfirmed”. One of
> >         the reviewers needs to remove this before the PR can be merged.
> >        
> >         It’s in our face, it prevent accidental merges and its low overhead.
> > 
> >     I still think simply adding the label should be sufficient.  I dunno
> >     about you, but I look at labels all the time, for all sorts of
> >     reasons, and one saying [cla: trivial] would certainly attract my
> >     attention.
> >    
> >     Let's make it bright red-orange, that'll catch anyone's eye (even mine)
> >    
> >     Also, removing that label will rapidly be annoying as soon as someone
> >     closes and re-opens a PR...  or whatever other action that triggers
> >     the "pull_request" event (and there's a lot that does that...  our
> >     script is being kept busy!).
> >    
> >     Cheers,
> >     Richard
> >    
> >     --
> >     Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
> >     OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
> > 
> > 
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