On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:00:05 +0300 Giulio Camuffo <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 from me too. I have never used patchwork, but any tracking tool > would be a huge improvement. > > 2014-10-01 11:45 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > at least with Wayland and Weston, we have bit of hard time tracking the > > patches that need attention. I think I am currently the only one who > > actually keeps a backlog, my backlog is not public, and I cannot be a > > maintainer 100% all the time, so this won't scale or work for too long. > > > > How about we started using http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/ ? > > > > Apparently it works fine for Mesa et al., right? > > > > I believe it picks up patch emails from the mailing lists automatically > > and creates issues, and with a git hook at fd.o repos, a git-push can > > automatically close issues. > > > > There was also some command line tool for the patchwork database, IIRC. > > > > It wouldn't change how we work: patches are good in the mailing list, > > inline, we would still do review on the mailing list, etc. We would > > just have an automatically maintained list of open patches. > > > > For the record, this was the announcement for Mesa: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-November/049293.html > > > > Wayland-devel mailing list gets patches to three different projects: > > Wayland, Weston, and libinput. Is this a problem? Sometimes it is hard > > for even humans to see which repository a patch is targeting. > > > > From a quick chat with tfheen, it seems like patchwork assumes 1:1 > > between mailing lists and projects. OTOH, it looks like Xorg project in > > patchwork gets patches to a myriad of different git repos, and you can > > filter search results based on subject. > > > > People do already usually use something like "[PATCH weston v7]" to > > identify the target, so filtering by subject should mostly work. > > How does this work if someone forgets the "weston" though? I know it > happened to me at least one time. You would still see it in patchwork's unfiltered list, i.e. the default view. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
