Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2019, #03; Tue, 16)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

>> That's this one
>>
>>     Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 19:13:06 -0700 (1 week, 3 hours, 23 minutes ago)
>>     Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] harden unexpected object types checks
>>
>> which I think is what has been queued and what is listed in the
>> message you are responding to.
>
> Ah, perhaps you could clarify some confusion I have about the "What's
> Cooking" emails (or at least point me somewhere I could un-confuse
> myself).
>
> This topic is in the "Cooking" section with a "-" (which I recall means
> that it's in 'pu'), but there is no "Will merge to ..." line below it
> from you.
>
> That makes sense to me, but I'm not sure whether or not that means it's
> queued. Do you say that a topic is queued once it's on your pu, or once
> you have written "Will merge to..."?
>
> Thanks in advance for your clarification.

Hmph, I guess I shouldn't use the verb "queue" if it implies a lot
more than there is to it.  I create a topic branch out of a patch
series on the list at some point in the iteration of a series and
merge it to 'pu'; I can say "I queued the topic to 'pu'" after doing
so.  The verb to me does not mean anything more than that.

The fact that a topic is queued on 'pu' does not mean much.  It can
be taken as a sign "Gitster thought that it may become 'next' worthy
material, either as-is or with further polishing and replacing."
Once a topic gets discussed on list and it seems apparent that there
is a concensus that supports it, I may mark the topic as "Will merge
to 'next'" in the What's cooking report, but I may not realize that
the list already reached such a concensus and may leave it unmarked
in the report.

So "this has been battle tested in such and such environment" and/or
"this round was reviwed by the thread here and they were supportive"
etc. is a very appreciated response to the "what's cooking" report
to help me merge the topic down to 'next'.

"I have sent a reroll at ..." I typically hear when I miss a
rerolled version and what is listed is still from an old iteration,
hence my "Eh, you are pointing at what I have queued" reaction.

Thanks.