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Document the commit process around bootstrapping #7600
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Comment author: @xavierleroy Any volunteers? |
This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
There is now a good Sorry to hijack the autoclose but people searching the issue tracker may fall on this. I think this issue can be closed. Meta note. I find a little bit sad that the OCaml project decided to declare bug bankruptcy by going to such extremes as labelling one year old bug as stale while it could have gradually have closed say 20-30 bugs per months starting by the oldest ones that were filed 18 years ago. |
Do you think we are so stupid that we didn't think of that? All the old bugs were "touched" on March 19, 2019, when they were automatically migrated to Github issues. Hence, from the bot's viewpoint, these migrated issues are one year old. |
No, I thought you would have programmed a bot less stupid than that. As far as I can see the original date of the report was migrated correctly. All these github APIs exist for something. |
Original bug ID: 7600
Reporter: @gasche
Status: acknowledged (set by @xavierleroy on 2017-09-30T09:06:22Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: low
Severity: text
Version: 4.06.0 +dev/beta1/beta2/rc1
Target version: later
Category: documentation
Related to: #7599
Bug description
There is documentation about the bootstrap process in two places:
To my knowledge there is no public description of when to bootstrap, and of the commit process around a bootstrap. (I believe both changed in the last couple years, with the primitive stuff requiring less bootstraps and the consensus to separate bootstrap commits from the rest.)
Additional information
This is related to #7599 (documentation for magic number updates) given that documenting the commit process around magic numbers requires being able to explain the bootstrap part.
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