[Investigation] Add JEP check to the PR

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2022-04-13 18:06, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> I have to ask: Is this really worth the trouble?

If Guoxiong is taking the time to implement it, why not?

I like the general concept -- it is similar to the /csr command. I think 
it is useful to have a correspondence between PRs and JEPs, just as we 
have a correspondence between PRs and CSR requests.

(The idea has been along for a while, and I'm not certain the current 
suggestion is 100% correct, but it is certainly good enough to start 
with, and then we can adjust issues that arise later on -- just as we 
have done with almost all of the Skara development. Start by doing 
mostly right, and then fix edge cases or issues we discover later on.)

/Magnus

>
> We’ve targeted and integrated over three hundred JEPs since the
> inception of the process in 2011.  How many of those, besides JEP
> 295, were integrated prematurely?
>
> The solution you offer requires the JEP implementor to remember to
> type the `/jep` command in the PR.  They could forget to do that
> just as easily as they forget to check the targeting status of the
> JEP itself.
>
> Now if you could automagically determine that a PR issue is a JEP
> implementation and block it when the JEP is not targeted, without
> the JEP implementor having to do anything special, then that might
> be more compelling -- but still, is it a problem worth solving?
>
> - Mark