Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

Simon Marchi via Gdb
2024-04-23T15:29:20Z

On 2024-04-23 11:08, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> Indeed. Though Patchwork is another option for patch tracking, that
>> glibc seem to be having success with.
>
> We tried this in gdb as well. It was completely unworkable -- you have
> to manually clear out the patch queue, meaning it's normally full of
> patches that already landed. I know glibc has success with it, but I
> wouldn't consider it for gdb unless it gained some new abilities.

The thing that Gerrit excels at is tracking the different versions of a
given patch, being able to easily diff versions, etc. And then mark a
patch as merged once it's committed to master.

Patchwork doesn't have this capability built-in (AFAIK). You can try to
do some automation, but I doubt that any system based solely on getting
patches from a mailing list can ever be as good as something like Gerrit
for this.

Simon