Re: [drm_hwc] PSA: drm_hwc submissions via gitlab

From: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
To: Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com>
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Subject: Re: [drm_hwc] PSA: drm_hwc submissions via gitlab
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 13:24:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504172400.GJ73214@art_vandelay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4196beaa-4963-4ad0-c60e-2e666a5863c0@collabora.com>

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 10:43:22AM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
> Hey Sean,
> 
> On 2018-05-03 17:04, Sean Paul wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > Apologies for the direct ping. I've harvested your emails from drm_hwc git logs,
> > and didn't want to leave anyone out. The good news is that your email address
> > will forever be remembered in the annals of drm_hwcomposer!
> > 
> > Anyways, back to the point.
> > 
> > Now that we have our shiny freedesktop gitlab instance [1], we should really
> > start using it to its fullest extent. This means 2 things:
> > 
> > 1- When you send patches, please consider using gitlab merge requests instead of
> >     git send-email. This is not mandatory, but dri-devel is so busy, I want to
> >     make sure things aren't lost. Further, there might be some who are not
> >     interested in reading dri-devel *gasp*, but who are interested in drm_hwc.
> > 2- If you're interested in being notified of merge requests (since dri-devel can
> >     not be cc'd), please consider clicking "Watch" on the project and choose your
> >     desired notification level.
> 
> About the above two points, maybe we could set up a dummy account that
> watches the gitlab project and sends notifications to the dri-devel list?

Ah, yeah, I didn't think about that. That could definitely work! I do wonder how
many people care about drm_hwc on dri-devel, but we could spin up the dummy
account and see who complains.

> 
> > 
> > If you're still reading, I'll point out a couple other things:
> > - There is a bug tracker on the gitlab instance, feel free to add
> >    bugs/features/etc to it.
> > - I've added a TODO list to the wiki, but in typing this, realized it's probably
> >    better to file bugs for each item. So please ignore the TODO wiki entry.
> 
> I can confirm that the TODOs are now very neatly organized issues.
> Thanks for setting this up and sending out this ping.

fd.o was nice enough to let us dogfood gitlab first, so the least we could do is
start using it properly :-)

Shout out to Stefan Schake who's merge request was the first one merged
via the new flow. Honorable mention goes to Alex Gheorghe who submitted the
first merge request, which unfortunately has been held up by my nitty ways :-(

Sean

> 
> 
> Rob.

-- 
Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS
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