[Development] Gerrit Bot closing reopened Bugs?

[Robert Loehning]

Am 26.03.2019 um 09:48 schrieb Frederik Gladhorn:
> On fredag 15. mars 2019 14:05:39 CET Robert Loehning wrote:
>> Hi *,
>>
>> imagine the following situation:
>> 1. Bug in 5.13 is reported
>> 2. Patch with "Fixes: " is merged to 5.13 branch
>> 3. Gerrit Bot closes the report with "Fix Version 5.13".
>> 4. Reporter tests 5.13 branch, fix failed, reopens report
>> 5. Patch is merged to dev branch
>> 6. Gerrit Bot finds the patch in dev branch
>>
>> What will the Gerrit do now? Will it close the reopened bug report
>> again? I'm asking because this seems to have happened in
>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-21994
>> (with Creator's branches 4.9 and master)
>>
>> The Gerrit Bot should not close bug reports which were reopened unless
>> there is another patch. If this really happened as I suspect here, could
>> someone please fix it?
> 
> Indeed, I agree. This was something I didn't consider when writing the bot.
> 
> I want to fix this issue, but I'm not sure when I'll get around to fixing it.
> So far it was developed internally, but I just created a request on Gerrit to
> let you review the code:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/257050/
> 
> I think it should be very doable to extend the bot to check if the last
> transition was a re-open, in which case it could just drop a message and not
> close the bug again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik

Hi Frederik,

neither do I know when I'll get around to fixing it, sorry. If nobody 
else fixes it soon, my proposal would be to shut off this bot until it 
works correctly.

Cheers,
Robert