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Re: Review promise :-)
On 2/13/20 3:54 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> The hard part is that each developers queue is messy because we don't
>> keep them clean.
>
> One benefit we were supposed to get from stopping manual ChangeLog edits
> was that the git-patch-id of a commit for a patch committed with no
> changes would match the git-patch-id of the patch posted to the mailing
> list - and so patchwork would be able to mark such a patch as committed
> automatically.
>
> I'm not clear if this is a standard patchwork feature or just something we
> hoped to be able to implement after stopping manual ChangeLog edits,
> however.
>
> (It might make sense to clean up existing patches in patchwork based on
> having a git-patch-id matching a change that is now on master, as well as
> doing such cleanup automatically in future.)
I think that automating this is the goal with Patchwork 2.0.
Right now I'm walking developer patches queues from most recent patch
to oldest patch usually looking for something to review. I'm trying to
use patchwork in the way it was intended to see what the workflow would
look like.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.