Comment 5 for bug 387683

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>
> > As you can see from the original email, there's a lengthy "cover letter"
> > in that email explaining the patch. Yet there is no sign of that text
> > on the web page for that proposal, or in the email I received from
> > Launchpad informing me that merge proposal was created.
>
> That is indeed a bug. It doesn't happen to everyone, so it's been
> unclear what the root cause is. Thanks for attaching the raw mail.
> That will help.

Ah good. The lack of any error notification gave me the wrong impression.

[...]
> > As best I
> > can tell the current process is "send request; wait a minute or five for
> > email to reach LP and be processed; find web page for new merge proposal
> > somehow;
>
> That's a little worrying. When you create a merge proposal, you should
> receive email about it, and that should include the URL.

Well, I did receive that email. “find web page” was intentionally vague; it's a
toss up really whether repeatedly syncing my new mail or polling the
+activereviews page is going to be faster, but I suspect polling +activereviews
would win.

Obviously if this bug is fixed then that won't matter :)