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

[Vitor Sessak]

On 01/23/2011 01:35 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Vitor Sessak<vitor1001 at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 01/23/2011 01:18 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>> Vitor Sessak<vitor1001 at gmail.com>   writes:
>>>
>>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> As easy as rebasing them to master and sending to this list.
>>
>> Is the rebasing really necessary? Doesn't patchwork accept patches
>> that applies to older git revisions?
>
> It would, but some of those patches are _very_ old and might not even
> make sense anymore.  I'd rather not blindly throw them in there and
> have them just take up space.

If they don't deserve space the disk space in patchwork, it doesn't 
belong to the wiki page either.

-Vitor