From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel development collaboration platform wish list
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:58:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2608348.dCUkSTB59S@kreacher> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zlwzbxv.fsf@intel.com>
On Friday, September 13, 2019 1:13:16 PM CEST Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > During the Maintainers Summit session yesterday I started to create a wish list
> > for the new kernel development collaboration platform to be created (and to
> > replace the multiple pieces of tooling in use today). I also asked Bjorn,
> > Jiri, Greg and Shuah for input and here's the reslut:
> >
> > 1. Compatible with e-mail
> >
> > (a) E-mail send to it stored and included automatically; appears as part of
> > the normal flow.
> >
> > (b) Automatic e-mail responses
> > If e-mail is sent to it, the sender will get all responses to it in the
> > given thread by e-mail.
> >
> > 2. History tracking
> >
> > (a) Should be able to track revisions of a given patch series (or patch) down
> > to the initial submission.
> >
> > 3. Integration with git
> >
> > (a) Should be able to create git commits from patches (or patch series)
> > tracked by it if pointed to a git branch (either locally or remotely).
>
> As I wrote in [1], I think git send-email and am are a lossy method of
> transmission, and reliably regenerating commits from patches, with the
> right baselines, as well as tracking various patch and patch series
> versions, is very difficult.
Assuming that git is used to generate patches in the first place.
Some people use different methods, like quilt, however.
> I think we should have a git push based mechanism to contribute, which
> would in turn send the patches to the right lists and maintainers for
> review.
Alternatively, one could point the change submission mechanism to a
git branch exposed from somewhere and a tree to merge it on top of.
> Maintainers could, at their choosing, still use the emailed
> patches (which would all be sent using the same pipeline, without the
> typical issues) and their exact existing workflows, or switch to using
> the commits from a branch directly.
>
> There are more contributors than maintainers by several orders of
> magnitude. It would make the maintainers' lives so much easier if the
> patches came in the same way, every time.
I guess you mean a consistent view of all patches regardless of the source.
If so, then I agree, that should be one of the goals.
> When we have technical issues
> with patches, as maintainers, the problems rarely are in the receiving
> end. IMO solving *all* the other items in this email would become much
> easier if had this first.
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
> [1] http://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfv3w3v6.fsf@intel.com
>
>
> >
> > (b) Link tags pointing back to it should be added automatically to git
> > commits created from patches tracked by it.
> >
> > 4. Distributed
> >
> > (a) Support for running offline.
> >
> > (b) Support for batch updates.
> >
> > (c) CL-frendly.
> >
> > 5. Patchwork-like features
> >
> > (a) Delegation support.
> >
> > (b) Support for bundles and patch series manipulation.
> >
> > (c) Smart mbox (download all selected patches).
> >
> > 6. Easy to set up (especially for local installations)
> >
> > 7. Bug tracking support
> >
> > I guess there are more items to be added to this list, so please extend it if
> > you have any ideas and we'll see where this goes. :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rafael
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-13 8:22 Kernel development collaboration platform wish list Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-13 11:13 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-17 21:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2019-09-18 8:05 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-18 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-13 11:37 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-13 12:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-13 12:15 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-13 12:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-17 22:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-02 9:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-17 18:40 ` Stefan Schmidt
2019-09-24 9:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 12:20 ` Stefan Schmidt
2019-09-17 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-01 3:52 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-01 4:50 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-10-01 5:04 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-23 16:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-24 1:39 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24 5:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 3:58 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-26 10:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 11:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-26 13:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-28 22:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-29 16:03 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-26 13:10 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-26 13:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 14:40 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-02 9:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-02 14:22 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-03 9:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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