Posting a WIP patch which is available for someone else to continue work on

[theres-waldo]

Sometimes I run into the following scenario:

• Person X has work in progress on a bug B, in the form of a Phabricator review. Maybe it even has some review comments on it.
• Person X does not intend to continue working on bug B in the short term, and I'd like to mark the bug as being available for someone else (possibly a volunteer contributor) to take over, with the WIP patch as a starting point.

In such a case, I'd like person X's patch to be posted to the bug, but person X not to be assigned to the bug.

How can I communicate this to Bugbot? Bugbot seems to be very stubborn about wanting to assign person X to the bug in such cases.

[suhaibmujahid]

In this case, "Phabricator Automation" not BugBot is the bot that assigns the author again.

Example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414024

My understanding is that the bot will not assign the author again as long as there is no activity on the Phabricator revision. This could be improved to avoid reassigning the same person again in cases the person was unassined and did not push a new diff to the revision. Alternatively, we could have a keyword on the bug (e.g., open-to-grab) to communicate this.

@dklawren I know that your team owns the Phabricator Automation bot, but I did not find it in the Bot Registry.

@theres-waldo you may need to open a bug for this in the Phabricator Integration component.

[dklawren]

@dklawren I know that your team owns the Phabricator Automation bot, but I did not find it in the Bot Registry.

Updated

[theres-waldo]

@theres-waldo you may need to open a bug for this in the Phabricator Integration component.

Thanks. I found bug 1608948 as an existing bug about this issue in that component and commented on it. I'll close this one.