10 Tips for Better Pull Requests

[aldanor via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 11:52:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2015-01-16 19:50, deadalnix wrote:
>
>> It is better to have some kind of bot that comment on the PR 
>> after a
>> while. Like "hey, this PR is hanging, can someone make thing 
>> go forward
>> or I'll close in 2 more month". That generate activity on the 
>> PR and is
>> often a wake up call for people.
>
> Ruby on Rails has something like that for their project. 
> Although there's a huge unfairness if a reviewer never replies. 
> Just because a reviewer doesn't reply doesn't mean the problem 
> (i.e. a bug) goes away. Yes, they're using this for issues.

The whole thing would be much easier if github issues were used 
instead of bugzilla -- for one thing, it would automatically 
mention it in a pull request (or an issue) if it was mentioned 
anywhere in another issue / pull request which makes browsing and 
figuring what relates to what much easier (instead of having to 
search bugzilla / forum / pull requests here and having three 
different places to register things at). Just my 2 cents...