Re: What's cooking in zh_CN (Jul 2026, #02)

[Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 07:56:28PM +0200, Doehyun Baek wrote:
> > Btw, for example, my patch (Weijie Yuan · docs/zh_CN: add docs-next
> > checkout workaround) is actually directly discarded after we reached
> > a consensus during our communication (with Dongliang). But it's
> > obvious that we didn't say it explicitly. So your website can't
> > recognize it automaticly right now. Perhaps we can think about how
> > to deal with this situation later.
> 
> Yeah, this is a downside of an automated approach: it can miss details
> that are only implicit in the discussion. I see roughly three ways to
> handle such cases:
> 
> 1. Allow authors to mark a patch explicitly by replying with a
> recognized phrase, such as `Patch-status: withdrawn`.
> 2. Use natural-language reasoning, perhaps with an LLM, to infer the
> outcome from the discussion. I leaned against it due to cost and
> complexity.
> 3. Leave the patch pending and let it move to "Cold" automatically
> after 30 days.

Junio originally uses "Stalled", but I don't think there's a difference
though :-)

> I think either the first or the third option makes sense in this situation.

Agreed.