Re: Improve or change devel mailing-list for improve efficiency and spending less time, is this possible?

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 15:49 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> I still not found a good and "all-in-one" solution but I saw this open
> source project: patchwork http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/
> Seems interesting, is integrated with mailing list, now seems with 
> "basic features" but probably in future it could become great.
> I same that many open source project already use it, has someone here 
> already tried it in other projects? If yes what do you think?

I've used it in my role as a u-boot custodian and I think it is "meh". It's
ok but it really requires everyone (i.e. all maintainers) to buy into using
it and to be disciplined about doing so and it does need frequent tending
and gardening otherwise it tends to accumulate cruft.

IME the command line clients leave something to be desired and the workflow
for actually applying a patch from p/w is rather clumsy, in particular
there is no easy way to access git-am's --reject option, other than using a
temporary file.

I don't think it would be a good fit for us.

Ian.