diff and submissions

[Steven Hartland]

On 05/05/2017 11:27, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 05/05/2017 à 12:20, Baptiste Daroussin a écrit :
>> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>> Le 05/05/2017 à 08:16, Franco Fichtner a écrit :
>>>>> On 4. May 2017, at 10:20 AM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If you went as far as being able to create a pull request, you can do a
>>>>> git show HEAD or git diff origin/trunk...HEAD and submit that in the
>>>>> FreeBSD PR as well.
>>>> It's pretty easy to extract the diff from a PR on GitHub, just append
>>>> ".diff", and ".patch" works too, but gives the full git commit history:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/62.diff
>>> Yes, I am aware of that, the problem with github pull requests is that
>>> they are outside of the FreeBSD bug report process, they do not get
>>> assigned to maintainers, nobody notices them, they just stay there, and
>>> get obsolete.
>>> There have been 61 before, yes, I closed a lot because they were
>>> obsolete because it is outside of our process and nobody noticed them,
>>> and for the rest either asked the submitter to open a PR on our
>>> bugzilla, or opened one myself.
>>>
>> I made a script which is a few lines of shell that converts pull requests to
>> phabricator reviews automatically.
>>
>> I have handed it to some of the phabricator admins, I hope it will be progress
>> soon.
>
> Please, do not do that.
>
> Phabricator is for code review, not bug reports.  It all ends up in our
> repository, but Phabricator does not have any maintainer notification
> like Bugzilla has.
> robak@ has a script that does pull-request -> bugzilla, and it has been
> waiting for months for someone with access to do something about it.
Pull requests are not bug reports, that would issues.

IMO PR -> phabricator would be best match.

     Regards
     Steve