[U-Boot] pending patches website

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>]

Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Thursday 02 April 2009 08:32:00 Detlev Zundel wrote:
>>>> not so long ago there was some custom thingy that was running on the
>>>> u-boot website that'd automatically grab patches from the mailing list
>>>> and try to file them away so they wouldnt get lost.  but i cant seem to
>>>> find it any more. is it gone ?
>>> No, it is not gone, it only starts to bitrot :(
>>>
>>> It also never by itself grabbed patches, but the idea was to post the
>>> patches to its own email account which in turn sent acknowledgements to
>>> the mailinglist _including_ a unique tracking number which was needed
>>> for automatic handling of follow-up mail.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the original implementor is not available anymore and we
>>> currently do not see how to finish the missing bits, especially the
>>> automatic handling of the status of patches.
>>>
>>> If someone on this list with (solid) Perl knowledge volunteers to pick
>>> up the strings, let me know offlist.

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> How about looking at installing patchwork on denx.de?  Was it evaluated 
> and found lacking?  At least you will be starting with non-broken perl. ;-)

<http://ozlabs.org/git?p=patchwork;a=summary>
<http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork/>

Looks like patchwork is non-broken *python* (not perl) and uses Django 
as well.  Mod patchwork +1.
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Patchwork is free software, and is available from the patchwork website.
Patchwork is built on the django web framework.
Patchwork includes the django-registration application.
Icons from the Sweetie icon set.
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Easily impressed,
gvb