There shouldn't be that many patches at any given time that syncing
the document manually would be a hassle. If that time comes, we can
look into automation. The advantage of the Etherpad over Gerrit for
this, IMO, is that you can expand on the rationale behind a patch or a
given topic of patches, and thus explain why we see them as needed.
Gerrit might not be the place for such a detailed explanation.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Paul Belanger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Fabien Boucher wrote:
>> What about maintaining an etherpad with the list of patches we carry in our
>> packaging ?
>>
> If the data is already in gerrit, moving it to etherpad just duplicates it 
> IMO.
> Personally, I like using topics in gerrit to help organize patches, it worked
> very well for zuulv3 release, maybe we can start doing that with SF specific
> review.
>
> We also could consider creating a new dashboard in gerrit using
> gerrit-dash-creator[1] to make it easy via web UI too.
>
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/gerrit-dash-creator
>
>> For instance, each patch line should include:
>>
>>    - the upstream review
>>    - the current in-progress status (-1/0/+1/+2)
>>    - an explanation about why this patch is needed for us in SF.
>>    - maybe more ...
>>
>> Idea is to use that etherpad as a relay document between upstream and us.
>> Maybe it can help, as a support,  to promote our patches to be merged
>> faster.
>>
> I like the idea, if we can solve the duplicate data issue from above, I think
> that is great. Giving upstream something too look at is the right approach, I 
> do
> think a single topic in gerrit might be a great first step.
>
> - Paul
>
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