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

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:49 AM, ⚛ <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 03.06.2016 13:12, wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Patchwork isn't really central to most people's workflow as far as I
>>> understand it.
>>
>> Ok. But how does a developer know (better: gets notified) when a patch
>> has been accepted and added to mainline mesa-git? Viewing all git log
>> messages every day because - just in case - the patch _might_ have
>> been added to mesa-git seems quite inefficient to me.
>
> The person applying the patch will send an email saying "Thanks,
> applied", or "Thanks, pushed".

Shouldn't repetitive tasks be left to machines whenever possible?