Re: Clean up state on patchwork

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 28 Sep 2015 13:08, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 09/28/2015 12:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 28 Sep 2015 15:53, Joseph Myers wrote:
> >> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>>> What if you're on vacation? What if you're busy? The patchwork queue
> >>>> is still really helpful to keep your list of patches you need to go
> >>>> back to and resubmit.
> >>>
> >>> my proposal doesn't prevent that.  perform a search where the owner is you and
> >>> the state is set to dropped.
> >>
> >> Dropped is for patches the submitter decided to drop.  It's meant to be an 
> >> explicit submitter decision that a patch is no longer of relevance, not 
> >> someone else's decision.
> > 
> > OK.  then lets simply re-assign all the patches from these people to themselves
> > and then we can search for patches that require review but have no owner.
> 
> Isn't it simply easier to add a "Resubmit" state, mark it as "not needing action"
> (so it doesn't show up on the normal lists) and go from there?

well, you need to update each patch in some way -- either it's to change the
owner or change the state.  i don't feel strongly either way.
-mike

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