Just want to make sure. Should we merge our own backport PR when it’s ready? I 
feel a bit uncomfortable merging it, as it’s technically my code. I still 
requested others to review it again in the past few occurrences.

Best,
Wei

> On Aug 4, 2025, at 2:03 PM, Amogh Desai <amoghde...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it's easy to ignore messages from the cherry picker sometimes
> assuming that adding PRs to the release milestone is good enough, but
> more often than not the PR authors should ensure that their PRs land in the
> right set of branches to avoid any surprises.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Amogh Desai
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello here,
>> 
>> I think we (including myself) dropped the ball a bit when cherry-picking
>> some of the last weeks PR - resulting in unnecessary release managers
>> (Ash's) work when he had to fix some issues in v3-0-stable and I had to
>> also make the `v3-0-test` green to generate constraints.
>> 
>> I think there are a few things we should pay attention to that are
>> relatively quickly merging cherry-picker's PR when they get green (or
>> manually doing it if they cannot be done due to conflicts). I think (not
>> sure) it's mostly on the commiter who merges PRs - they should see the
>> follow-up comments from the "cherry-picker" and either mark the PR as
>> "Ready for review" and merge it when it gets green., or manually do
>> cherry-picking and resolving conflicts (and also merging it when it gets
>> green).
>> 
>> This is quite important - regarding the sequence of merging the - and doing
>> it "relatively quickly" - because there might be other PRs that might
>> depend on the already cherry-picked PRs - so they might be easier to be
>> automatically done by cherry-picker.
>> 
>> Also - waiting for the PR to get green (and either solving or asking for
>> help if it's not) is important because it saves the release manager a lot
>> of work on figuring out why v3-0-test and v3-0-stable is "red". And it
>> makes it easier for the others who cherry-pick PRs after because it avoids
>> their "red" cherry-pick that they have no idea where it comes from.
>> 
>> I personally dropped a ball on it over the last few days / weeks and I am
>> as guilty as anyone else with merging things too quickly - but also I saw a
>> number of cherry-pick PRs that looked abandoned for a few days even if all
>> they needed were to make them "Ready for Review".
>> 
>> Maybe a good idea to pay a bit more attention to those when we are merging
>> PR that is supposed to be backported.
>> 
>> J.
>> 


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