[Mesa-dev] Stable release process

[Kai Wasserbäch]

Hi everybody,
Nicolai Hähnle wrote on 18.11.2016 17:48:
> On 18.11.2016 16:56, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 18 November 2016 at 12:34, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Speaking of patchwork, mostly I'm fine with it. There are some
>>>> "drawbacks" though:
>>>>  - some duplicated time will be spent tagging "self-rejected" patches.
>>>> I already track these based from the mailing list.
>>>>  - it doesn't parse "Pick commit $sha, it addresses $issue"
>>>> nominations, so it cannot substitute/replace the mailing list.
>>>> In case my first point brought some "don't bother with the ML" type of
>>>> thoughts.
>>>>  - you don't seem to be using it [1] so I'm not sure of the sudden interest.
>>>
>>> Patchwork can't clear any of my patches on git push. That's normal. I
>>> do use Patchwork for reviewing patches though.
>>>
>> Seems to work fairly well here. Admittedly I have way less (and
>> smaller) patches...
> 
> Patchwork is pretty dumb about how it compares patches. If you have non-standard
> git diff settings (e.g. more lines of context), it will never recognize a patch.

wouldn't a tool like Phabricator be much better for reviewing and reliably
tracking whether a patch has landed or not? Especially if you use it in
combination with Arcanist? While I'm certainly not a core developer, I find
patchwork clunky. Sometimes it doesn't pick up R-bs or doesn't recognise series,
which makes seeing the actual state of a patch a bit tricky from time to time.

In addition you would get things like automatically closure of bugs, nice
referencing features and lots of other nice features. And AFAIK freedesktop.org
already has a Phabricator instance, which could be used.

Just my outside opinion, though. ;-)

Cheers,
Kai

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