Patch management workflow for threads that peter out (was: Re: [PATCH] Fix [:IDENT:] vs posixidentifiers)

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lawrence Velázquez wrote on Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 21:48:09 -0400:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, at 9:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Lawrence Velázquez wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 19:45:59 -0400:
> > > My apologies, as patch manager I should have brought this to the
> > > list's attention, but I haven't worked back past mid-February yet.
> > 
> > «~d '< 100d' ~b '^--- '» is my friend ☺
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > That's all mails in the last 100 days that have a line starting with
> > "--- " in the body of the message.  I'm not sure if that decodes
> > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" before matching the regexp.
> > Timestamps are UTC.  I couldn't easily add X-Seq numbers to the output,
> > sorry.
> 
> Thanks! I worked back through December today and plan to do two or
> three months' worth of backlog every weekend (after more recent
> submissions, naturally).

Thanks a lot!  I didn't expect the new patch manager to go that far back
through the archives, but it's certainly useful and appreciated!

That does bring up the point of what to do with threads that peter out
without a review.  I suggest that they be added to Etc/BUGS.  WDYT?

Cheers,

Daniel