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

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 11:18:39 +0200, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> > 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).

Can Linaro bot not submit a custom status to the CI metadata rather than
a comment? (I'm more familiar with GitLab than Forgejo.)

--Ben