[U-Boot] Patchwork housekeeping

[Andy Fleming]

On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:

> Hi Graeme,
> 
> On 22.03.2012 04:58, Graeme Russ wrote:
>> 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
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/135526/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/135699/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/135697/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/135698/
> 
> That's the list of patches sent in January, still no progress.
> 
>>       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         * Superseded - By another patch (either by you or someone else)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
> I marked the patches as `awaiting upstream'.


Awaiting upstream means that the patches have been applied already, and are waiting for Wolfgang's pull. I suspect this is not the case for your patches. If it is the case, then there's probably no need to mention it, as Wolfgang will eventually pull that tree.

Andy