Re: PATCHES - Countdown for January 23rd

[David Kastrup]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:58 AM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> I guess I am a developer with repository access, but in Salzburg,
>> >> Werner
>> >> offered to me to do the mechanics of shepherding the patches through,
>> >> and
>> >> I'd like to take that offer. My time is probably better spent
>> >> navigating
>> >> the arcana of the GUILE 2 / 3 transition.
>> >>
>> >
>> > OK, that looks reasonable. That means patches will *not* get pushed
>> > "without any of your involvement" but you have to ask someone, i.e.
>> > Werner to do so. Probably he's monitoring this anyway, but you might
>> > ping him again privately, just in case.
>>
>> I can also do this.  The decision should still be done individually:
>> some patches reach "push" in spite of comments on Rietveld, and James
>> implements more of a janitorial process and the decision which comments
>> may be showstoppers really rests with the patch submitter.
>
> Thanks, that's greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW, Do issues get closed on Rietveld automatically too? I still have
> many open reviews from many years ago.

The only person able to close them is the author.  Not sure whether a
project manager could, but then this would be quite a bit of additional
work.  I probably have accumulated a lot of them by now, too.  Probably
a few years since I last remembered to clean up.

-- 
David Kastrup