On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:22:23PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:59:05PM -0800, Vadim Bendebury (????) wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:46:35AM -0800, Vadim Bendebury (????) wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hello Wolfgang, > >> > [snip] > >> >> > Can you not pick up the patches directly from the mailing list? I > >> >> > mean, we know of the problems patchwork has (like silently dropping > >> >> > certain base64 / utf8 encoded messages), so we should rather try and > >> >> > get a more reliable feed for the patches? > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> this is the thing: picking up patches from patchwork is not something > >> >> you'd do regularly - this is just my way of populating the review site > >> >> from a single test account. > >> >> > >> >> If this workflow were adopted, each user would push their patch to the > >> >> gerrit server, creating a new review branch for that particular patch. > >> >> In general, gerrit view of the branch matches the submitter's view of > >> >> the branch - if the submitter has several patches in one branch, they > >> >> will all be uploaded by gerrit to the same separate branch, > >> >> maintaining the relationship between the patches. > >> > > >> > This is my biggest concern. On the one-off to infrequent contribution > >> > side (and we do have some of that), I worry about the infrastucture > >> > hurdle here. > >> > > >> > >> Sorry, I am not sure i understand what the biggest concern is: that > >> the users would push their own patches? Why is this a problem - the > >> patches would go into their own branches until reviewed and merged. Or > >> did you mean something else? > > > > I mean, it's a higher hurdle to clear. Looking at other non-Android > > projects, I know some folks have said "bah, not worth the effort" to > > push trivial things, if it must come via gerrit. So some way to scrape > > the ML for things that don't come in via gerrit to start with would be > > handy. > > I think this is something one of 'known' developers will end doing and > applying it to Gerrit.
I suspect you're right, and that it would end up being me. So I'm fishing for something else, at least a little bit longer. -- Tom
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