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

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau at intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:44:07PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So, we could have:
>
>   $ git pw init https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/ intel-gpu-tools
>
> which would retrieve some server side config and shove it into
> .gitconfig. That does require a step anyway though, not sure how ideal
> this is or what else could be interesting to do with such a thing.

I like the idea of making this specific to patchwork (the git subcommand
and the server/project) rather than a some magic in the repository of a
project. Much more generic that way.

BR,
Jani.



-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center