[U-Boot] Patchwork housekeeping

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Marek,

On 03/22/2012 05:45 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Graeme Russ,
> 
>> Hello Custodians and Mailing List Aficionados,
>>
>> I don't know if anyone has noticed, but patchwork is starting to collect
>> a rather large amount of cruft.
>>
>> I occasionally jump onto patchwork and do a little housekeeping by marking
>> updated patches as 'Superceeded' and anything applied by Wolfgang as
>> 'Accepted' (There may be a few patches that have been applied to custodian
>> tress that I marked as 'Accepted' when really they should have been marked
>> as 'Awaiting Upstream')
>>
>> I really don't mind doing this housekeeping, but I would like to make a
>> few suggestions that will make the work a little easier:
>>
>>  - If you are a custodian:
>>     o When you apply a patch to your repo, can you please assign it to
>>       yourself in patchwork and set it to 'Awaiting Upstream'
>>     o Reply to the ML with 'Applied to <repo>/<branch>'
>>     o When you send a pull request, create a bundle with all the patches
>>       that are to be pulled (you can create the bundle early and add
>>       patches as you apply them)
>>     o When Wolfgang pulls your repo, go to the bundle and mark all the
>>       patches 'Accepted'
>>
>>  - If you are a patch submitter:
>>     o Visit http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/
>>     o Search for your patches by following the 'Filters'link and entering
>>       your name
>>     o Send and email (with 'patchwork' somewhere in the subject) to the ML
>>       with a list of patches that you submitted say more than one month
>>       ago. For each patch, please indicate if the patch is:
>>         * Superseded - By another patch (either by you or someone else)
>>         * Not Applicable - The patch can be ignored (was an RFC, was due
>>           to a misunderstanding, another patch did the same thing, etc)
>>         * Applied - Has been applied (state the repo and branch)
>>         * Rejected - Patch has been officially rejected
>>         * Waiting - You believe the patch is still valid but has not been
>>           applied (send a ping as a reply to the patch on the mailing list
>>           as well
>>         * Other - Please describe what state you feel the patch is in
>>
>> Once I get the raw list down to a manageable level, I'll start to look at
>> the leftovers...
> 
> WAT ? Yet another ruleset ... and a long one while at that. Maybe we should 
> cobble together an "U-Boot contributors guidebook" ... printed edition with 1k 
> pages ;-D

The submission rules (http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches) are pretty
clear and concise (I've added a not about starting the subject with a tag)

> We really need to make it easier for people to contribute to u-boot, these long 
> rulesets only ward people away.

This patchwork cleanup should really only be a once off to try and get
things cleaned up a bit. There are patches in patchwork from 2009, if we
can get some of the stale patches cleaned out (and contact the submitters
to see if they are interested in resubmitting or verifying re-based
patches) then we will all be better off.

Nothing is more discouraging to patch submitters than patches that get ignored.

Regards,

Graeme