Re: [PATCH 6/6] u-boot: Rework signing to remove interdependencies

[Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>]

On 11/9/22 18:07, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01/11/2022 13:54:18-0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> > That would result in a lot of messages on the mailing list and ends up
>> > being a lot of work for the maintainers as well.
>> 
>> If you use a tool like b4 [1] it can automatically generate a summary thank-you message.
>> As an example, [2]. This keeps the number of messages down and is not terribly
>> burdensome for maintainers (since it fits into the usual patch workflow),
>> 
> 
> I was also surprised to not receive confirmation that my patches were
> applied. However, unfortunately, b4 is not working with our current
> workflow as I am applying the patches and providing tested branches to
> Richard that he is cherry-picking from.
> 
>> You can set up something like pwbot [3], which integrates with patchwork
>> and your repository. It produces messages like [4] automatically when it
>> notices they have been merged into the repositiry, and marks them as
>> "Accepted" in patchwork. This is even lower effort for your maintainers.
>> 
> 
> This would integrate better but I4m not sure we have a pw instace for
> every repository that compose poky.

I think even incremental changes are good here. We can start just e.g.
openembedded-core and see how that goes.

--Sean