RFR: Section on PRs [v2]

Jesper Wilhelmsson jwilhelm at openjdk.java.net
Sat Apr 9 01:41:47 UTC 2022


On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 11:15:24 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/index.md line 1468:
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>>> 1466: After the PR has been published, rebasing, force-pushing, and similar actions is strongly discouraged. Such actions will disrupt the workflow for reviewers who fetch the PR branch. Pushing new changes is fine (and even merging if necessary) for a PR under review. Incremental diffs and other tools will help your reviewers see what you have changed. In the end, all commits will be squashed into a single commit automatically, so there're actually no drawbacks what so ever to making several commits to a PR branch during review.
>>> 1467: 
>>> 1468: ## Life of a PR
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>> Could you mention that the PR title has to start with a bug ID? Many first-time contributors are surprised by that.
>
> In fact, a PR title can be *just* the bug ID -- in that case, Skara will fill in the proper title from JBS, which might be a simpler way to get the correct PR title. (I'm an old-timer though, and always copy the title from JBS manually. Quite silly, actually ;-)).

This is a very good suggestion. Added.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/79


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