Patchew is now indexing LKML

Patchew is now indexing LKML

[Paolo Bonzini]

Hi all,

just a small announcement that the patchew.org service is now archiving 
and indexing all patch series coming through LKML.  The main page is at 
https://patchew.org/linux/.

Patchew is not unlike patchwork, in that it will collect and index patch 
series as they appear on a mailing list.  Its functionality also 
overlaps a bit with b4 in that it recognizes and stores various tags 
sent in reply to the patch series, and also links together different 
submissions of the same series.  It has been in use for a few years with 
various virtualization projects (it was created during the patchword 2.x 
stasis), and recently MPTCP has also based its CI on Patchew plus GitHub 
Actions.

The LKML integration is still a bit new and experimental, so it is not 
yet applying the patches to a git tree like it does for other projects 
such as QEMU; this also means that for example it is not yet possible to 
"search by maintainer".  However, the patches are already searchable by 
to/cc, and also available via REST API at 
https://patchew.org/api/v1/projects/12/.

Our hope is to further integrate Patchew with the various mailing list 
workflow tools in the coming months, for example using b4's three-way merge.

The website has some small server-side functionality for users to mark 
series as accepted/rejected, though it lacks something like the 
delegation feature of patchwork.  To use this functionality you'll need 
an account, which right now must be created by myself.  Please contact 
me offlist if you're interested (though by all means reply on the 
mailing list if you want further information on the tool).

Paolo