[Investigation] The design for SKARA-1096 about JEP check

[erik.joelsson at oracle.com]

On 2022-03-07 06:08, Guoxiong Li wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> If in the future, if your suggestion for JBS improvements goes through,
> we can add auto discovery of JEPs.
>
> I agree with Erik now because skara can't always push the issue trackers or
> other systems to change.
> We should firstly meet the request from the developers by using the
> currently usable mechanism.
>
> So I propose the following design:
>
> 1. Use the command `/jep issue-number` and `/jep jep-nunber` to mark a PR
> as JEP PR (similar to command `/issue issue-number`)
> 2. Use the command `/jep unneeded` and `/jep uneeded` to restore the state
> (similar to command `/csr unneeded`)
> 3. Use a new bot to check the jep is targeted or not (similar to CSRBot)
>
> And some related items may be changed:
> 1. The jep link can be listed at the PR `Issues` (similar to the csr issue
> link)
> 2. A label named `jep` could be added to the PR(similar to the label `csr`)
> 3. An item about jep could be added to the `Progress`, such as `Change
> requires a JEP request to be targeted`.
>
> What do you think about it? Any ideas are appreciated.

I think this looks reasonable.

/Erik

> Best Regards,
> -- Guoxiong
>