Dear Graeme Russ, > Hello Custodians and Mailing List Aficionados, > > I don't know if anyone has noticed, but patchwork is starting to collect > a rather large amount of cruft. > > I occasionally jump onto patchwork and do a little housekeeping by marking > updated patches as 'Superceeded' and anything applied by Wolfgang as > 'Accepted' (There may be a few patches that have been applied to custodian > tress that I marked as 'Accepted' when really they should have been marked > as 'Awaiting Upstream') > > I really don't mind doing this housekeeping, but I would like to make a > few suggestions that will make the work a little easier: > > - If you are a custodian: > o When you apply a patch to your repo, can you please assign it to > yourself in patchwork and set it to 'Awaiting Upstream' > o Reply to the ML with 'Applied to <repo>/<branch>' > o When you send a pull request, create a bundle with all the patches > that are to be pulled (you can create the bundle early and add > patches as you apply them) > o When Wolfgang pulls your repo, go to the bundle and mark all the > patches 'Accepted' > > - If you are a patch submitter: > o Visit http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/ > o Search for your patches by following the 'Filters'link and entering > your name > o Send and email (with 'patchwork' somewhere in the subject) to the ML > with a list of patches that you submitted say more than one month > ago. For each patch, please indicate if the patch is: > * Superseded - By another patch (either by you or someone else) > * Not Applicable - The patch can be ignored (was an RFC, was due > to a misunderstanding, another patch did the same thing, etc) > * Applied - Has been applied (state the repo and branch) > * Rejected - Patch has been officially rejected > * Waiting - You believe the patch is still valid but has not been > applied (send a ping as a reply to the patch on the mailing list > as well > * Other - Please describe what state you feel the patch is in > > Once I get the raw list down to a manageable level, I'll start to look at > the leftovers...
WAT ? Yet another ruleset ... and a long one while at that. Maybe we should cobble together an "U-Boot contributors guidebook" ... printed edition with 1k pages ;-D We really need to make it easier for people to contribute to u-boot, these long rulesets only ward people away. > > Regards, > > "Your friendly Patchwork janitor" Graeme Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot