Using a patch queue?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-30T00:15:03Z

Daniel Berlin offered in February to set up a patch queue. It's some
custom software that he wrote for GCC, after two consecutive GCC Summits
in which people agreed that they wanted some automated way to keep track of
patches, but no one came up with anything that seemed usable.

Here's the GCC one:
http://www.dberlin.org/patches/
http://dberlin.org/patchdirections.html

I've never used it except to play with it, but a lot of GCC contributors do,
as you can see. I think that's a pretty compelling point in its favor,
since they have a similar workflow to ours.

The patch tracker follows the list (via the web archives, I think) and
collects annotated messages. You're under no obligation to annotate your
messages; anyone can manually add a URL to the patch tracker via the web
interface. I believe the first review response removes the patch from the
queue; we might want to save :REVIEWMAIL: for final approval/rejection.
Or it might be useful enough just to track patches which have never
been looked at, which happens quite a lot.

I wouldn't mind having a better tool than my inbox to track down what needs
looking at; I don't have enough time to review everything that needs
reviewing as it is. Anyone else have an opinion?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery