On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:14:19PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> writes:

> > What I'm doing for this is that when I apply the patch I save a
> > git note with the message ID and various other things then when I
> > push the patch out and generate the "applied, thanks" e-mail I
> > look for the git note and use that.

> I was doing something similar with git notes, but the beauty of a
> Link: that includes the message id is it gives you everything you need
> to send those "applied" mails without any extra state.

Yeah, you can definitely do that - I originally did it that way
but converted to notes because I want to make sure that I can
send out the applied mails if the push succeeds even if the
network is slow or spotty.

> I also have a local message-id <=> patchwork id mapping, and that means
> I can also do the patchwork state update based purely off the Link: tag.

...

> If only the patchwork maintainers weren't all volunteers they could get
> that implemented some time ;)

Indeed.