Re: patch tracking tools (was Re: Maintainer abuse)

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/12/2014 14:25, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > One thing that makes automation a bit easier for QEMU is that it does
> > not have a merge window; while we do have a central committer that takes
> > pull requests, the phases are a bit more traditional (2 month
> > development, 2 weeks preparation for freeze, 1 month feature freeze).
> > For Linux it would be more important for the tool to know which patches
> > are for which tree, possibly based on the destination mailing lists.
>
> Things can be complicated, for example patch series dependencies.  It's a
> question to think about whether we need it to be complete or want to keep it
> simple.

I think we want to keep it simple.  Patch series dependencies complicate
the job for the maintainer too.

Andrea Arcangeli reminded me later of the obvious: for Linux such a tool
could simply use the linux-next tree as a base.

Paolo