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On 29/11/18 9:21 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:03 AM Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:If we cannot make patchwork happy, we can rest assured that we cannot make any PR based tools happy.Is that right, though? In a PR-based workflow, the primary artifact is a VCS branch and its meta-revision history (i.e. first we had this series of commits, then they got rebased and now we have this other one, etc) and the review discussion (which may still be email-based, and indeed I hope it will be) is hanging off of that. It seems to me that that would inherently make it easier for a patch tracker to monitor the status of all proposed changes, since it can directly monitor events in the VCS rather than trying to reconstruct them from emails that may be ambiguous.
I should clarify that I'm not promoting patchwork as the end result of our efforts. The only point I'm making is that we don't necessarily need to choose a PR-based workflow now to make our patches compatible with them; patchwork can do that for us.
Choice of patch review tools is going to take another Cauldron at least, if not two. Patchwork exists today because one day I hosted it on my personal host some years ago and a bunch of us liked it at the time. The result was that not a lot of people (including me) used it and it bit rotted. We need to make sure that that doesn't happen again.
Siddhesh
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