Re: New version of lore available for preview

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2021, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:32:25 +0100
> Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > Well, as beautifully inefficient as that all sounds, it might be
> > slightly less time consuming if I just succumb to peer pressure and
> > switch pwclient out for b4.
> 
> The old "Show them an even more painful alternative to make the current
> solution seem good" trick.

Works every time! :)

> > Thankfully, my use-case is much simpler than Steven's.
> 
> Of course, my solution came before b4 was even thought of (I even mentioned
> this solution in the kernel summit discussion that started the path to b4).
> 
> The one thing I need that b4 doesn't give me, is a place outside of email
> to keep track of the state of patches. I've failed in all my attempts at
> using email folders to do this. What I love about patchwork is that I can
> keep the patches at various states.
> 
>  New - I just received it and need to look at it / test it.
> 
>  Under review - They have been tested, just need to be pushed to upstream.
> 
>  Accepted - they have been accepted.
> 
> I also created other states for topics, like "Real Time", "Scheduler",
> "RCU", etc, so that I can go back if I have time (which currently I never
> do), and look at these patches.
> 
> I also use the "delegate" option to assign patches to myself that are high
> in priority.
> 
> I tried doing this with email folders, and even a git repo, but because I
> use email and git for so much else, it still gets lost in the noise. I like
> patchwork because its web based, and I have a window up all the time that
> shows me what patches I need to work on next.
> 
> The pulling into git is actually one of the trivial parts of the process.

I like to keep my setup as KISS as possible.

Fortunately, in terms of upstream reviews I've managed to whittle
patches down into 3 states;

 - unread
 - does not need review
 - needs review

The latter is represented with Mutt's 'flag-message' functionality.

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