[RFC] Archive old patches on patchwork?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/19/20 7:43 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Since there is little chance that anyone is going to walk through the
> patchwork state and review very old patches, can we archive patches
> from 2019 and earlier on patchwork?  That will clean up the slate
> somewhat and make patchwork a bit more usable.
> 
> I ran a script today to close off patches that have the exact same
> diff in git, so the list is smaller by about ~800, but there's still
> ~6k more to go and most of those will never see the light of day.
> 
> The end goal for me is to get the patchwork instance to a point that
> it is actually reasonable to have more automation to close off
> applied patches and maybe even close off patches that don't apply
> anymore.  That means that we will be trying to emulate what gitlab
> does and maybe at that point we need to ask ourselves if we're better
> off putting in a gitlab instance instead :)

I suggest archiving old patches from 2018 and earlier as a start.

I also want to start an open public patch review as discussed in my
GNU Tools Cauldron BoF for glibc.

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Cheers,
Carlos.