[Intel-gfx] Random submitter change in Freedesktop Patchwork

Saarinen, Jani jani.saarinen at intel.com
Fri Oct 21 09:39:43 UTC 2022


Hi, 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-gfx <intel-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of Ville Syrjälä
> Sent: torstai 20. lokakuuta 2022 19.21
> To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Sarvela, Tomi P <tomi.p.sarvela at intel.com>; intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org;
> dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Random submitter change in Freedesktop Patchwork
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 07:07:22PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit at intel.com> wrote:
> > > The freedesktop Patchwork seems to have a "feature" where in some
> > > cases the submitter for a series changes randomly to a person who
> > > did not actually submit a version of the series.
> > >
> > > Not sure but this changed submitter seems to be a maintainer:
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/108156/
> > >
> > > Original submission by badal.nilawar at intel.com and subsequent
> > > submissions by me (ashutosh.dixit at intel.com) but current submitter
> > > is jani.nikula at linux.intel.com.
> > >
> > > For the above series I believe the submitter changed at v7 where
> > > perhaps a rebuild or a retest was scheduled (not sure if Jani did it
> > > and that changed
> > > something) but the build failed at v7. Also note root msg-id's for
> > > v6 and
> > > v7 are the same.
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/108091/
> > >
> > > Original submission by me (ashutosh.dixit at intel.com) but current
> > > submitter is rodrigo.vivi at intel.com.
> > >
> > > Similarly here submitter seems to have changed at v3 where again the
> > > build failed. Also note root msg-id's for v2 and v3 are the same.
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > The problem this change of submitter causes is that if the actual
> > > original submitter wants to schedule a retest they cannot do it
> > > using the retest button.
> >
> > I presume it's caused by me responding with a review comment that
> > patchwork interpreted as a new patch in the series [1], and changed
> > the series submitter too.
> >
> > Sorry about that. It's a known issue that I sometimes forget to work
> > around when replying with diffs.
Yes, known issue. + at Latvala, Petri too. 

> 
> I just permenently stuck a 'my_hdr X-Patchwork-Hint: comment'
> into my .muttrc to avoid that.
> 
> --
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel


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