Re: [RFC] On sending forge pull request discussions to the mailing list

Claudio Bantaloukas via Gcc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.ai.sourceware.forge
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/04/2026 10:18, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> Hi Claudio,
> 
...

>> One thing to add: the linaro bot currently updates existing comments 
>> so it will be good to figure out which messages are a "final state" 
>> and either make the bot recognize them or mark them with <!-- bmm:send 
>> -->.
> 
> Hmmm thanks to your help & suggestions a few months ago I managed to 
> reduce the amount of comments generated by the Linaro bot using these 
> HTML markers/comments: now it updates comments in place when the status 
> changes (pending/running/completed).
> How to detect a comment is the final one I'm not sure (if there's a 
> crash during the "running" phase, there will probably never be a 
> "completed" update).

That should not be a problem. If the run doesn't finish, it will not 
produce a result. The message containing the fact that a build has 
started is potentially useful information but not so useful that we need 
to archive it.
A failure or a completed test run is an "end state".

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
>>
>> * https://forge.sourceware.org/forge/batrachomyomachia/issues/15
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Claudio
>
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