[Mesa-dev] Stable release process

[Daniel Stone]

Hey Marek,

On 18 November 2016 at 19:09, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Kai Wasserbäch
> <kai at dev.carbon-project.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> OK, off topic we go.
>
> I have some experience with Phabricator and Arcanist from LLVM and
> it's not very good.
>
> Phabricator (or Arcanist) doesn't support patch series. You can only
> submit one patch, or a range of commits as one patch (which is pretty
> bad - why would anyone on Earth want to do that). It also doesn't
> support downloading patches in the mbox format (only plain diffs).
> Based on that, I don't recommend it.

Off-topic indeed. Arcanist is crippled, as you say, and I don't like
its UI. But git-phab does exist to let you attach patch series, e.g.
https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7573 contains a load.

Cheers,
Daniel