[ANNOUNCEMENT] Change in MR landing procedure
chessai
chessai1996 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 06:12:12 UTC 2020
No problem, thanks for the update Ben! Something to look forward to
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 00:11 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> writes:
>
> > tl;dr. On Thursday 10 Dec, Marge-bot will be relocated to a retirement
> > facility. Her duties will henceforth be carried out by GitLab's
> > Merge Train functionality.
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When GHC moved to GitLab two years ago the platform lacked a critical
> > feature: the ability to manage a queue of merge requests slated to be
> > merged. For the past two years we have been using @marge-bot for this
> > functionality. While Marge has served us well, she also introduces her
> > fair share of failure modes.
> >
> > In the meantime GitLab has grown proper support for our use-case in the
> > form of the "merge train" mechanism [1]. In light of Marge's growing
> > intransigence [2], I will grant her a well-earned retirement and begin
> > using merge trains for merging MRs starting on Thursday.
> >
> Unfortunately, on further testing I found a few additional features
> missing from GitLab's merge train implementation that precludes our use
> of it currently. It's possible that this will be fix in the near future
> but until then it looks like we will need to stick with Marge. I have
> opened #19046 to track the migration.
>
> Anyways, please continue to assign mergeable MR's to @marge-bot until
> further notice. I'll roll back the Wiki changes tomorrow.
>
> Apologies for the confusion!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
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