[Spice-devel] Proposal: review branches (was Re: [vdagent-win PATCH v6 2/5] Initial rewrite of image conversion code)

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 
> > > > If you are worried about more effort for PRs considering the solution
> > > > 2 could be an option. If patchew is able to create an "item" (actually
> > > > I think they call them just "series") and you are able to see the
> > > > merge status and change it if needed you hardly will forget a series.
> > > 
> > > I agree, and even before a series exist, it is useful to keep track of
> > > the
> > > discussion/feature state, and there is bugzilla (and the wiki) for that.
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&list_id=620536&namedcmd=spice
> > 
> > This gives me "The search named spice does not exist.".
> 
> Oh sorry, this is my personal filter, but you get the point
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=620547&product=Spice&resolution=---
> 

not exactly my point, here there are a mix of bugs, patches, feature requests
and so on.

> > 
> > > https://www.spice-space.org/page/In_progress
> > > 
> > > For instance, the seamless series is really not "lost", if only people
> > > keep
> > > using bugzilla:
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39238
> > 
> > Are you suggesting to open a bug report for every patch send to
> > the ML?
> 
> No, as I said before, I think if the submitter doesn't even bother to ping on
> his own patch or series, it is basically abandoned (until somehow does some
> research on the topic).
> 
> So if you want to make sure it is being tracked somehow, open a bug. Spice
> developers should refresh/update their open bugs regularly.
> 

Honestly this last sentence seems to me a contradiction to the first.
As I said I want to track all series/patches, this requires to open a bug
(and tag it somehow) for every patch sent to the ML.
And this also exclude random contributors.

> > 
> > > 
> > > I am hardly convinced adding yet another way to track things will improve
> > > the
> > > situation, quite the contrary.
> > > 
> > 
> > These ways seems far from the series/patches level we are mainly
> > discussing.
> 
> Ok, then you lost me :)
> 

Maybe but this does not surprise me, the thread is getting too
wide to follow everything.

Frediano