[Intel-gfx] Random submitter change in Freedesktop Patchwork

[Ville Syrjälä]

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.

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

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel