[Freeipa-devel] Reviewer in Trac

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:43 +0100, Tomas Babej wrote:

> > No. The only thing that happened automatically in Patchwork was that
> > entries got created. Patchwork doesn't even have threads - each
> > version of a patch needed to be individually marked as superseded.
> > Very much mindless clicking is needed to keep Patchwork up to date.
> >
> 
> Manually marking all the lost threads as superseeded was the exact
> reason I stopped using Patchwork.

And this is my fault, it would be actually rasonably easy to
automatically make it mark older threads superseeded...

> Patchwork would be a great tool, if it could automatically derive the
> information it needs (work with threads properly, set patch status
> depending on the email headers / keywords in the text). Having to
> manually update it however, it becomes too heavyweight, because of the
> imperfections Petr mentioned.

It can do a lot of these things, we tried to enable sending status via
email but something didn't work and we couldn't find time to fix it.
But the infrastructure is there to do what you ask, it's just a matter
of giving it some time.

> The proposal we have for the reviewer field does not solve the problem,
> but the actual maintenance load becomes much lighter, and we do get the
> reasonable portion of benefit.

I guess.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York