Wayland and Weston in Patchwork

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 01:14:20PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> some of you already know that we now have
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/wayland/list/
> to keep track of the patches sent to wayland-devel mailing list.
> 
> Thanks to Daniel for setting that up. :-)

Ditto thanks Daniel, and thanks pq for this guidance in using it!

> You change the patch status by clicking the patch link in the list, and
> on the following page you should have box titled "Patch Properties"
> near the top. If you don't see that, you don't have permissions to
> change it (e.g. not logged in, or unregistered email address).

There are several defined states:

 New
 Under Review
 Accepted
 Rejected
 RFC
 Not Applicable
 Changes Requested
 Awaiting Upstream
 Superseded
 Deferred

Some of these seem obvious, others less so.  I think it would help to
have a glossary of what they mean, so we use them consistently.  I poked
around but didn't see one.

In particular, if I review someone else's patch and feel it is fine to
be landed, how do I mark it to signal to the Committers "this is ready
to land"?  Should I mark it Accepted?  Do I Delegate it to one of the
Committers?

When is Under Review used?  Looking at the patchwork source this state
and New are the two 'action_required' states, so perhaps Under Review
should be for incoming patches that need someone to review them?

> Shortcomings:
> 
> There are several features we would like to see in Patchwork but AFAIK
> are not there (yet?). Patchwork does not recognize re-submissions so
> that it could automatically set a patch as "Superseded".

Might be nice if it permitted project-specific states, or even just a
richer set of states to track things like if the patch has passed the
testsuite, and to differentiate between okay-in-concept reviews and code
quality reviews.

> It does not maintain patch sets. You can create "Bundles", but so far
> those are just named collections of individual patches, and you need
> to create them manually.

If I create a Bundle of patches (e.g. Derek's large transform patchset),
does that help others?  Or are Bundles just personal?

Bryce