Re: who's using the ozlabs patchwork install for QEMU patches ?

[Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:55 PM Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:57:21 +0800
> Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:43 PM Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:59:34 +0000
> > > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 07:21, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:51:02 +0100
> > > > > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 19/02/2021 17.26, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > > > > > Does anybody use the ozlabs patchwork install for QEMU patches,
> > > > > > > either occasionally or on a regular basis ?
> > > > > > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/
> > > > > > > The admins for that system are trying to identify which of
> > > > > > > the various projects are really using their patchwork instances,
> > > > > > > so I figured I'd do a quick survey here. We don't use it
> > > > > > > as an official project tool but it's certainly possible to
> > > > > > > use it as an individual developer in one way or another.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think it might be used by some of the ppc hackers ... so CC:-ing to
> > > > > > qemu-pcc ...
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I do on a very regular basis.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the reports. Do you use the features like assigning
> > > > patches to people and changing patch status, or do you mostly
> > > > just use it as a read-only archive-of-patches ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Only the latter but mostly because I don't have the permissions
> > > to change status, e.g. when trying to change status of this
> > > recent patch from Cedric to rearrange the PowerPC docs:
> > >
> > > You don't have permissions to edit patch 'docs/system: Extend PPC section'
> > >
> > > My understanding is that users must be "maintainer" to edit other's
> > > patches. Only three 'maintainers' are currently listed at ozlabs for
> > > QEMU:
> >
> > I can update my patch status in the QEMU project. I am not sure if
> > this is due to I am a maintainer of another project hosted on
> > ozlabs.org.
> >
>
> Yeah everyone can update its own patches but you need to
> be maintainer of a project to update the status of other's
> patch for this project IIUC.
>

Ah, I see, thanks. So the question is whether QEMU maintainers want to
try the practice of using patchwork to help their maintenance work ...

> > >
> > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/1.0/projects/14/
> > >
> > > We had a discussion about that a few months back with Christian Schoenebeck
> > > (9pfs maintainer, Cc'd) who also uses patchworks. It turned out we didn't
> > > quite know how to go further because of lack of documentation, but I'd be
> > > glad to experiment the full patchwork experience if someone knows how to
> > > do it :-)
> >
> > I personally found patchwork is really helpful for mainatiner's work.
> > But it looks the maintainers from the QEMU community do not use it.

Regards,
Bin