[U-Boot] u-boot gerrit server

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Tom,

Am 19.11.2013 16:10, schrieb Tom Rini:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:29:49AM +0100, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>> Hello Tom,
>>
>> Am 18.11.2013 17:00, schrieb Tom Rini:
>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:07:59AM +1100, Graeme Russ wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> You do all realise that we are going about this, to use some British
>>>> vernacular, arse-about-tit
>>>>
>>>> Everyone agrees that the current U-Boot review workflow 'has issues' (and
>>>> has had issues for quite some time). The first attempt at overcoming these
>>>> issues was Patchwork. I personally think that that ended up being far less
>>>> successful than we hoped
>>>
>>> Maybe it's time to swing around back and talk about what's wrong with
>>> our current tools then.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>> What I don't like about patchwork:
>>> - Some patches just don't make it in.
>>> - Sometimes discussions can be a bit hard to follow there, but that's
>>>    what real mail list archives are for.
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>> What I miss in patchwork:
>>
>> - It would be great, if patchwork could detect newer version from patches
>>    and mark the old patches superseeded ... but maybe this is not trivial
>>    for all patches... and have somewhere in the new patch website a link
>>    to the superseeded patch, so I can easy find the old patch and can look
>>    in it.
>
> This isn't as easy as it sounds I think.  And honestly, it's not hard to
> handle manually, if you get in the habit.  And...

Yes, but we just collect things we want/miss/dont like ... so it is
a point I want, not a must, as I can handle this manually.

>> - If a custodian change the state of a patch, send at least a EMail
>>    to the owner of the patch with the info of the state changes.
>
> Wishlisting, I'd like to see the reverse, known project custodian saying
> "Applied to" or "NAK" causing Accepted (or Awaiting Upstream, this is a
> little complex..) or Rejected to happen automatically.  This could save
> on sending out the applied messages, but that's what bundles give me.
> Open it up in mutt, reply, find/paste/save-for-later, repeat.
>
>> - Maybe a cmdline interface to change the state of a patch, so I do not
>>    need to open a webbrowser (not necessary, would just nice ;-)
>
> As Wolfgang pointed out, there is a cli suite (doesn't like SOCKS, iirc,
> tho).  So it's scriptable to different levels.  With Wolfgang's setup,
> you could just for loop over the old series and it goes automagically.

Yes, I look into the cmdline interface... thanks!

bye,
Heiko
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