1706667 - moz-phab stops me from updating the patch if the reviewer set their state to away

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Conduit :: moz-phab, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alastor Wu [:alwu][PTO, back on 12/15]]

So my patch is like Bug XXX - YYY. r?ZZZ and I already got r+ from the reviewer, and my reviewer recently went to vacation and set its status to away and not accept any new reviews.

Then I use moz-phab submit to update my patch, but I got the error message like following

Unable to submit commits:

SOME COMMIT NUMBER Bug XXX - YYY. r?ZZZ
- ZZZ is not available until 2021-07-18 15:00

Because my patch is already got r+, moz-phab submit should not prevent me from updating the patch. In order to update that, I have to manually remove r?zzz from my local patch, which is annoying.

Comment 1

[Connor Sheehan [:sheehan]]

You can use -f to submit the stack anyways, if this is the only error stopping you from submitting. I'll add a hint about -f to the error message.

Comment 2

[Connor Sheehan [:sheehan]]

Attachment: repository: add a hint about `-f` overriding unavailable reviewers (Bug 1706667) r?zeid

Add a note to the "unavailable reviewers" error message that -f can be used
to bypass the error. moz-phab has this capability internally as it will
consider this warning to be non-fatal with -f passed, but the feature isn't
discoverable for someone who just wants to submit a patch.