PRs are being closed for bogus reasons :-(

[rb at gid.co.uk]

> On 1 Jun 2018, at 15:41, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Bob Bishop <rb at gid.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > On 31 May 2018, at 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> > 
>> > --------
>> > In message <CANCZdfovyg61=b0-60ZD426Z=774Wxm9hJxZ=bSqReW_fD4DoA at mail.gmail.com>
>> > , Warner Losh writes:
>> > 
>> >> There's a problem with the PR database: there's too many bugs.
>> > 
>> > And despite the valiant efforts of a number of people over the
>> > lifetime of the project, it has always had so many bugs that
>> > everybody just threw their hands in the air and walked away.
>> > 
>> > The way to improve the situation is to fix PR's, not to complain
>> > about PRs.
>> 
>> Indeed. But look at the number of PRs with patches that are stuck in that state. Not pretty.
> 
> Over the years I've committed dozens of PRs that had patches in them. The sad truth is that only about 10-15% of them have comitable patches in them when submitted. And that number decays over time as things age in bugzilla. [etc]

Sure. But the best a non-comitter can do is to supply a patch tested against HEAD. If the patch rots because it hasn’t been committed six months down the line it’s not my fault.

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Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk