On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:09:04PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 14:51, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > As it is, patchwork is full of patches that were already reviewed and
> > merged, all my scripts that were filtering and sorting patches are also
> > useless, and I get to wade through each patch for the second time.
> 
> You need to fix patchwork to have some conception of a
> patch series. Then you can just select the whole series
> which is the pull request and say "ignore this" and you're
> done. Any patch-handling tool that doesn't let you operate
> at the level of a complete series is always going to mean
> you're doing huge amounts of busywork sometimes.

Sometimes I'm Cc'd on 1 patch out of series.
I might not want to go dig out the series only
to check if it actually needs review.

> I don't particularly object to suggesting that pullreq
> patches are all tagged 'PULL'; I don't think it's very
> likely that you'll get 100% consistency out of everybody
> though.
> 
> -- PMM

As there's one person that does the merges, it's pretty
easy to get consistency. If you are not
sending a patch for review it's just wrong to say PATCH
in a subject. Or should I now ignore everything that
doesn't explicitly say [PATCH pleasereview] ?

-- 
MST

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