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

[Daniel Vetter]

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.
-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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Daniel Vetter
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