From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
sir@cmpwn.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: thoughts on a Merge Request based development workflow
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 00:39:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191008003931.y4rc2dp64gbhv5ju@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhicqhzg.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net>
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > Personally, I seriously want to change and move on from email, it's
> > terrible.
>
> FWIW, I maintain patchwork and I agree with this. Email suffers from a
> gap between what can be comprehended by humans and what can be reliably
> comprehened by machines.
>
> For example:
>
> - is a given series a revision of a previous series? Humans can change
> the name of the cover letter, they can re-order or drop patches,
> split and merge series, even change sender, and other humans just
> figure it out. But if I try to crystalise that logic into patchwork,
> things get very tricky. This makes it hard to build powerful APIs
> into patchwork, which makes it harder to build really cool tools on
> top of patchwork.
I'm confident that we can build much of that logic off search
and do similar things to what git does with rename detection.
> - what are the dependencies of a patch series? Does it need another
> series first? Does it apply to a particular tree? (maintainer/next,
> maintainer/fixes, stable?) This affects every CI system that I'm
> aware of (some of which build on patchwork). Humans can understand
> this pretty easily, computers not so much.
I think can do all these things off existing data in archives.
We already have pre/post-image blob IDs in git patches.
To get there, I think we'll need:
1) efficient way to map blobs -> trees -> commits -> refs
(a reverse-mapping for git's normal DAG)
2) automatic scanning of known repos (searching what appear to
be pull-requests, similar to what pr-tracker-bot does).
None of which requires patch senders to do anything differently.
git format-patch features such as --base and --range-diff can
certainly help with this, and it's probably easier to train people
to use newer options in existing tools than new tools, entirely.
> Non-email systems have an easier time of this: with gerrit (which I'm
> not a big fan of, but just take it as an example) you push things up to
> a git repository, and it requires a change-id. So you can track the base
> tree, dependencies, and patch revisions easily, because you build on a
> richer, more structured data source.
Right, decentralization is a HARD problem; but it starts off
with centralization-resistance, a slightly easier problem to
solve :)
The key is: don't introduce things which mirrors can't reproduce
Unlike in 2005 when git started; things like Xapian and SQLite
are much more mature and I'm comfortable leaning on them to
solve harder problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-24 18:25 thoughts on a Merge Request based development workflow Neil Horman
2019-09-24 18:37 ` Drew DeVault
2019-09-24 18:53 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-24 20:24 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-24 22:25 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-25 20:50 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-25 21:54 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-26 0:40 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-28 22:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-28 23:16 ` Dave Airlie
2019-09-28 23:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-01 3:22 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-01 21:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-09-29 11:57 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-29 12:55 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 1:00 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-30 6:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 12:55 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-30 13:20 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-09-30 13:40 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 21:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-09-30 14:51 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-30 15:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-30 16:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-30 20:56 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-08 1:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-09-26 10:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 13:43 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-07 15:33 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 15:35 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-07 16:20 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-07 16:24 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-07 18:43 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 19:24 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-07 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-07 18:40 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 18:45 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-07 21:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-07 23:00 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 0:39 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-10-08 1:26 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 2:11 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 3:24 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 6:03 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 10:06 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 13:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 18:46 ` Rob Herring
2019-10-08 21:36 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 1:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 16:43 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 17:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 17:39 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 19:05 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-08 20:32 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 21:35 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-09 21:50 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-10 12:48 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-09 21:35 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-09 21:54 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-09 22:09 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-09 22:19 ` Dave Airlie
2019-10-09 22:21 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-09 23:56 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-10 0:07 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-10 7:35 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-10 12:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-10 14:21 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-11 7:12 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-11 13:56 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-14 7:31 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-10 17:52 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-10 20:57 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-11 11:01 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-11 12:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-14 19:08 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 1:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-15 12:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-15 13:14 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 13:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-16 18:56 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-16 19:08 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-17 10:22 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-17 11:24 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-17 11:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-17 12:09 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-17 12:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-15 16:07 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 16:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-15 18:58 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 19:33 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 20:03 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-15 19:50 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-15 18:37 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-15 19:15 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 19:35 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 19:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-16 18:33 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-09 2:02 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-24 23:15 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-25 6:35 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-09-25 10:49 ` Neil Horman
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