[Mesa-dev] Patchwork review process (efficiency) questions

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2016 at 13:10, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:12 AM, ⚛ <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Situation: Looking at the content displayed by the web browser for URL
>>> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/mesa/series and sub-pages
>>> accessible via the links.
>>>
>>> The following questions are troubling me:
>>>
>>> - How does a patch submitter know when a reviewer will take a look at the patch?
>>
>> There is a scripts/get_reviewers.pl (based on linux kernel
>> get_maintainers.pl script) which can be used as git-cccmd and will add
>> appropriate people in CC when you send the patch.
> Just as a reminder - please don't CC blindly everyone that the script
> tells you. Adding the reviewed/maintainer is greatly encouraged,
> although adding the last X people that did trivial/cosmetic changes
> won't help at all.
>
> The script provides guidance, not a silver bullet (hmm where did I
> read that last one) :-)

well, the script does have some sort of interactive mode, but I didn't
really figure out how to avoid it..

probably better to fix up the REVIEWERS file so it doesn't fall back
git history so much.  (If someone knows a better alternative than
sending a huge patchset one by one, I'm all ears.)

BR,
-R

> Thank you
> Emil