Freeze wizard: new features

[xmo-odoo]

@d-fence creating this to discuss / flesh out freeze wizard ideas which may not strictly speaking be issues, but could be proposals.

The first thing I was thinking about is: while freeze PRs are definitely necessary to update the code (otherwise the freeze-master would have to provide something crappy like a patch file), for "empty" commit maybe the freeze wizard could allow just entering the commit title, and would create an empty commit when it creates the branch?

This would make the freeze a tad less coherent, as the "empty" commits would be created immediately while the "code" commits would be merged thereafter, but it sounds like it should work (assuming the github API allows empty commits but I think it does)

[xmo-odoo]

@d-fence second possible feature I'm not sure about: in #559 I added a note about "bump PRs" which would be merged into master after the freeze has been committed (to update the master version or whatever).

Is that actually desirable / needed / useful / whatever? Would this have to be opt-in (the reverse of the release PRs) where it'd default to not doing anything, and if you need / want an initial post-fork update you can add one?

[d-fence]

About the first idea: I prefer to keep the process coherent and create all the PR's manually and keep control of what will be merged.
About the bump PR in master: I think it's a good idea to have it as an optional thing as this feature is not needed for the Documentation repo.
Finally, an important thing is a nice view freezespage where we could see what will be done in a glance for all freezes.
(or a summary page for each freeze)

[xmo-odoo]

About the first idea: I prefer to keep the process coherent and create all the PR's manually and keep control of what will be merged.

OK.

About the bump PR in master: I think it's a good idea to have it as an optional thing as this feature is not needed for the Documentation repo.

Yup, hence it being opt-in (aka not required and not set by default).

Finally, an important thing is a nice view freezespage where we could see what will be done in a glance for all freezes. (or a summary page for each freeze)

Not sure what you mean here. That should be what the freeze wizard does, once I've fixed the issue where opening the wizard may create the freeze...