On 24/07/18 10:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 23.07.18 at 18:40, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> # How does this impact me?
>> The contribution workflow is *not* impacted by this change, but once up and 
>> running the following will happen once you post a patch or patch series to 
>> xen-devel:
>> * Patchwork will take patch series from the mailing list and applies it
>> * CI/DC testing is triggered
>> * A test report will be sent as a mail to the patch or the series (aka the 
>> 00 patch of the series)
>>
>> This does mean though that series which do not build or show other issues, 
>> will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass. This would lessen the 
>> burden on reviewers, as they will know whether the code submitted builds on 
>> a 
>> wide array of environments. 
> So how are dependencies between series intended to be dealt with? It
> is not uncommon for someone to say "applies only on top of xyz". The
> implication of "will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass" seems
> unsuitable to me in such a case.

99% of submissions aren't "applies on top of xyz".

Alternative, how about we see about not blocking underlying patches for
unreasonable periods of time?

~Andrew

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