On 12/28/2020 12:23 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 01:57:40PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> Konstantin, would you be willing to mod the kernel.org instance of
>>>> patchwork to populate Fixes tags in the generated mboxes?
>>>
>>> I'd really rather not -- we try not to diverge from project upstream if at
>>> all
>>> possible, as this dramatically complicates upgrades.
>>
>> Well that is really unfortunate then because the Linux developer
>> community settled on using the Fixes: tag for years now and having
>> patchwork automatically append those tags would greatly help maintainers.
>
> I agree -- but this is something that needs to be implemented upstream.
> Picking up a one-off patch just for patchwork.kernel.org is not the right way
> to go about this.
You should be able to tune this from the patchwork administrative
interface and add new tags there, would not that be acceptable?
--
Florian
