[PATCH 1/2] dim: Workaround Outlook + Patchwork mess.

Arkadiusz Hiler arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com
Wed May 23 11:10:50 UTC 2018


On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:37:52PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com> wrote:
> > Patchwork does not store the vanilla email contents. This means that
> > there are quite a few changes to be made to the database schema and data
> > retrieval paths.
> >
> > If we store and spit out the vanilla emails then you say goodbye to auto
> > r-b and ack in the mboxes - I am not sure that's the change most people
> > here would like to see.
> >
> > Storing original contents of the From header is much easier and maintain
> > most of the current behavior.
> >
> > This is just a bit of over thinking :-)
> >
> > Mostly it was dancing around the initial design shortcomings without
> > having to do a full blown rework with downtime and data migration.
> >
> > But hey, if the maintainers can agree that they just want the vanilla
> > mbox, I can deliver.
> 
> I want the author of the patch be set to the vanilla From: mail header,
> optionally overridden with the vanilla From: tag in the first lines of
> patch email commit message as put there by git.
> 
> BR,
> Jani.

https://github.com/ivyl/patchwork/commit/b9a3691af88f

I'll deploy that over the weekend.

-- 
Cheers,
Arek


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