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

From: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
To: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: who's using the ozlabs patchwork install for QEMU patches ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:55:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210223105510.0687d0b6@bahia.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEUhbmV+qUWtw0Cksrp9dwO2vPnCD8B7Se88a3K_dn3FENnLLQ@mail.gmail.com>

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.

> >
> > 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