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Re: Tracking patch pings


On Thu, 16 May 2013, Allan McRae wrote:

> From what I have seen, it considers the new version of the patch as a
> comment and updates the version of the patch it is tracking.  I can not
> remember if it changes its status back to New.  Of course, that is
> provided the new patch is sent in a reply and not a new thread.

Changing it back to New would be a very good idea to avoid patches getting 
lost (given the much of the point of such a tracker is to avoid patches 
getting lost).

> It is all very manual.  However, it does allow me to keep track of all
> the patches I have not reviewed, which has been good for a small
> project.  It would require somebody to manage it if used in a bigger
> project such as glibc or a concerted effort by reviewers/committers to
> keep it updated.

I'm happy for someone to set it up to track libc-alpha and libc-ports - 
but for it to be particularly useful, I think we need someone who is going 
to keep it updated like that, as patches get reviewed and committed.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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