On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:45:27PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 13.07.20 20:25, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At present U-Boot uses the mailing list for patch review. What do > > people think about trying out geritt or github for this? I'd be > > willing to do a trial with the -dm mailing list. > > > > My idea is that patman would email out the patches and also upload > > them to one of these systems. With geritt, emails are sent every time > > there is a review, but for github I'm not sure. > > > > If I remember well, we already had this discussion some years ago. One major > point against these tools is the workflow for most developers here, that is > mainly mail-centric (and shell driven instead of browser driven). Mailing > list allows to everybody to add contribute, and patches with their history > is archived in patchwork. Patches can be loaded and applied with shell tools > (pwclient). I would prefer to add some missing features to patchwork (for > example, automatic support for patches version) else to switch to another > tool that is just browser driven.
With respect to patchwork tooling, there's more stuff possible these days than a while ago I believe. I got https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/patchwork/2020-July/006672.html as a reply the other day and I need to go script that in to my automatic state updater as the problem was how v1/v2/etc stuff hashes the same sometimes, but that'll fix it. -- Tom
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