> Maybe the solution here is that developers who merge patches from
> contributors should test the PR before merging.

Of source, of course they should! (thats how the bug was discovered in 
the case I recalled). It's all about communicating to the contributor 
the most important things that we expect in the PR --- if not, then 
whats the point of having the PR template?

W dniu 1.05.2024 o 17:15, Eli Schwartz pisze:
> On 5/1/24 11:02 AM, Maciej Barć wrote:
>> Well, not really, there were many cases where pkg was broken on sandbox!
>> The latest example would be nim (before I updated it myself) where
>> contributor submitted broken pkg without telling anybody. It was a WIP
>> PR but nowhere they specified that it did not merge under sandbox. I
>> want to encourage contributors to outright say when they know/think
>> something might be wrong with package.
> 
> And adding another checkbox is going to stop people from submitting WIP
> draft PRs without marking them as drafts?
> 
> Maybe the solution here is that developers who merge patches from
> contributors should test the PR before merging. At least if you don't
> have a preexisting relationship with the contributor such that you have
> trust in the contributor to publish high quality ebuilds that pass basic
> smoketests.
> 
> I mean, you probably want to do that anyway because if someone shows up
> with their first ever PR and the change looks okay but has a broken
> checksum it is awfully hard to tell without actually running it. I
> certainly hope that if PRs are merged without being tested locally by
> the developer doing the merge, that it's for proxied packages
> contributed by the proxied maintainer, not packages where the Developer
> that maintains the package is merging untested patches just because
> someone suggested a change.
> 
> And if proxied maintainers make a habit of breaking their packages by
> submitting WIP drafts maybe they aren't such great proxied maintainers
> and there's a larger infrastructural problem going on.
> 
> 

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