Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:47:50 -0800 | From | Brian Norris <> | Subject | Re: Maintainer abuse |
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+ patchwork devs
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:15:35PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > Is it the year for a Google summer of code project or similar to turn > > patchwork into a proper patch management tool (one that collects the > > patches, provides a good maintainer interface, tells people automatically > > that their patches are queued, deletes repeats, gives them status urls > > they can give to managers or check, and also has the right bits > > maintainer side to actually do stuff like send out "your patch set no > > longer merges, please update" emails, and tell the maintainer if it > > merges, the coding style important bits, etc and with buttons for "merge > > me"
Patchwork definitely could use some work to help it scale better. Your todo list also sounds interesting.
> If that works with command line tools which nicely integrate into > e-mail, that might be something useful. If it involves browser clicky > interfaces, then at least for me not so much.
Patchwork has an XML-based RPC interface and a command-line 'pwclient' tool which uses it. I've had moderate success hooking this into mutt myself.
> > It could then be integrated into git (if only so we can have a "git lost" > > command to block annoying sources)
Not sure exactly what this is referring to, but patchwork has a rudimentary post-receive hook already which can be used to map patch diffs back to their likely patch source and update its status accordingly. e.g.,
git push myremote HEAD:next
could mark all myremote/next..HEAD patches as 'Awaiting Upstream', and
git push myremote HEAD:for-linus
could mark myremote/for-linus..HEAD as 'Accepted'. This is a bit of a crapshoot if you haven't resolved the 'duplicate patches' problem though.
Regards, Brian
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