[FFmpeg-devel] Patchwork instance running for FFmpeg-devel

[Vitor Sessak]

On 01/22/2011 06:01 PM, Janne Grunau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://patchwork.libav.org runs a patchwork instance
> (http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork/) looking on FFmpeg-devel for
> patches and comments. It's hooked into the git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
> repository and changes patch status on commits. This is currently not
> working perfectly due to mismatches in commit messages.
>
> I tried to send old mails to patchwork but due to the commit message
> matching they weren't changed to 'Committed' from the rewritten svn
> commit messages.
>
> Everyone should be able to register an account for his email address and
> will be able to change his own patches. Bug me to change the account to
> FFmpeg maintainer which will be allowed to change all patches.
>
> There is a patchwork command line client at
> http://patchwork.libav.org/help/pwclient/ and config file at
> http://patchwork.libav.org/project/FFmpeg-devel/pwclientrc/
>
> The command line client makes applying ok-ed patches simple as:
> pwclient view $PATCH_NUM | git am [-c] -s -
>
> Please take care and look at the patch before applying. Some patches
> are recorded with the full email. If that's the case the -c option to
> 'git am' is handy.
>
> I'm looking if it's possible to make status changes with emails which
> would simplify the workflow. Patchwork seems to have trouble to
> automatically superseede patches with refreshed versions.

Would it be easy to import the old patches at 
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Interesting_Patches ?

-Vitor