Wayland, Weston and libinput to patchwork?

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:00:05 +0300
Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 from me too. I have never used patchwork, but any tracking tool
> would be a huge improvement.
> 
> 2014-10-01 11:45 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > at least with Wayland and Weston, we have bit of hard time tracking the
> > patches that need attention. I think I am currently the only one who
> > actually keeps a backlog, my backlog is not public, and I cannot be a
> > maintainer 100% all the time, so this won't scale or work for too long.
> >
> > How about we started using http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/ ?
> >
> > Apparently it works fine for Mesa et al., right?
> >
> > I believe it picks up patch emails from the mailing lists automatically
> > and creates issues, and with a git hook at fd.o repos, a git-push can
> > automatically close issues.
> >
> > There was also some command line tool for the patchwork database, IIRC.
> >
> > It wouldn't change how we work: patches are good in the mailing list,
> > inline, we would still do review on the mailing list, etc. We would
> > just have an automatically maintained list of open patches.
> >
> > For the record, this was the announcement for Mesa:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-November/049293.html
> >
> > Wayland-devel mailing list gets patches to three different projects:
> > Wayland, Weston, and libinput. Is this a problem? Sometimes it is hard
> > for even humans to see which repository a patch is targeting.
> >
> > From a quick chat with tfheen, it seems like patchwork assumes 1:1
> > between mailing lists and projects. OTOH, it looks like Xorg project in
> > patchwork gets patches to a myriad of different git repos, and you can
> > filter search results based on subject.
> >
> > People do already usually use something like "[PATCH weston v7]" to
> > identify the target, so filtering by subject should mostly work.
> 
> How does this work if someone forgets the "weston" though? I know it
> happened to me at least one time.

You would still see it in patchwork's unfiltered list, i.e. the default
view.


Thanks,
pq