[Intel-gfx] i-g-t/libdrm email tagging & patchwork

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 12:31:36AM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've added a feature to sort the patches sent to intel-gfx into 3
>> buckets: i915, intel-gpu-tools and libdrm. This sorting relies on
>> tagging patches, using the subject prefixes (which is what most people
>> do already anyway).
>> 
>>   - i915 (intel-gfx): catchall project, all mails not matching any of
>>     the other 2 projects will end up there
>> 
>>   - intel-gpu-tools: mails need to be tagged with i-g-t, igt or
>>     intel-gpu-tools
>> 
>>   - libdrm-intel: mails need to be tagged with libdrm
>> 
>> This tagging can be set up per git repository with:
>> 
>>   $ git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH i-g-t"
>
> Is there any way we could push this out to users somehow? I have bazillion
> of machines, I'll get this wrong eventually ... So will everyone else I
> guess.

Googling around, I don't think we can automatically force this on
people. We could add a script to make it easier for people to set this
up. Either a setup that needs to be re-run every time there are changes,
or a setup that symlinks a git hook back into a file stored in the
repository so changes are deployed automatically. The latter has
security implications, so I'd go for the former.

BR,
Jani.


> -Daniel
>
>> 
>> And use git send-email as usual. A note of caution though, using the
>> command line argument --subject-prefix will override the one configured,
>> so the tag will have to be repeated. To limit the number of things one
>> needs to think about I'd suggest to use --reroll-count to tag patches
>> with the v2/v3/... tags. I'm more and more thinking that wrapping the
>> sending logic for developers into the git-pw command would be a good
>> thing (especially for --in-reply-to) but that'd be for another time.
>> 
>> There are two new patchwork projects then:
>> 
>>   http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/intel-gpu-tools/
>>   http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/libdrm-intel/
>> 
>> I've also run the sorting on all the existing patches so the entries
>> that were historically in the intel-gfx project are now in those new
>> projects.
>> 
>> There is still some work left to limit the noise of those lists of
>> patches, eg. some patches are still marked as New but, in reality, they
>> have been merged. Solving that is quite important and high-ish the TODO
>> list.
>> 
>> HTH,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Damien
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center