Re: How to send revision patches to old issues in DEBBUGS so Guix QA can look at them?

[Andy Tai]

Maxim, I know about this.  Problem is Guix QA does not look at old issues

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:36 AM Maxim Cournoyer
<maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
>
> > Hi, per Chris's recent comments, Guix QA only looks at (a window of)
> > recently created issues due to storage space limitations, which is
> > understandable.
> >
> > However, if I have update (package definition) patches to not very
> > recent issues, such as some stale issues sitting there for some time,
> > Guix QA does not pick these revisions up.  Then these revisions will
> > not be reviewed and would not be merged.
> >
> > Ideally, Guix QA should look at recent patch submissions to the
> > guix-patches mailing list but not sure if that is easy to implement.
>
> After rebasing the old series locally, you can send it to the *same bug
> ID* with a bumped version (e.g. git send-email -v2
> ... --to=NNNNN@debbugs.gnu.org).
>