New Github Issues

Orvid King via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 28 18:35:31 PDT 2014


On 7/28/2014 12:31 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Github updated their Issues system (which includes Pull Requests). You
> can read about it here:
>
> https://github.com/blog/1866-the-new-github-issues
>
> Bugzilla is here to stay but the newly added Labels feature could
> probably help organize Pull Requests. The usual "Enhancement", "Bug",
> etc. are nice but I'm wondering if anyone can think of a way they could
> be used to help deal with the pull request backlog. A lot of the time it
> seems like there is confusion over whose court the ball is in. Maybe a
> "Changes Requested" label to show the pull request is waiting on the
> submitter to make some changes reviewers requested. A "Stalled" label
> could be used when the submitter isn't responding to review requests
> (which would eventually result in the pull request being closed).
>
> I think assigning a state to pull requests (rather than just reading
> over comments) would help make the process more clear and make the
> status of pull requests noticeable at a glance rather than having to
> open each one to see what's going on.

How accessible is it possible to make the labels? Can they be made 
semi-publicaly editable like bugzilla's? Also, could we default to 
having an awaiting review label for new PRs? Perhaps even have them 
sorted to be at the top by default?


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