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.

- 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.

- 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 ;-)

That's it.  The queue can get unwieldy if you don't check the unassigned
patches daily, but I don't see how another tool is going to fix the
underlying problem of people not using the tool frequently.

Yes, full ack.

What I like about patchwork:
- Bundles.
- Everything is mailbox format / git am'able.

- Patchwork collects the Acked-by, Tested-by,... for a patch
- The custodians ToDo list! I see on one site, what I have ToDo, nice.

bye,
Heiko
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