On 10 Aug 13, Michael Hope wrote:
> The next big thing for the Toolchain WG is sending patches upstream
> and beginning to track patches in general.  Some of the use cases are:
> 
>  * Do a change upstream in 4.7, backport it to our 4.5, and backport
> it to our 4.6 when we make one
>  * Do a change locally, track where it lands upstream, and figure out
> what we have to bring forward when we next rebase
>  * Track what is Linaro specific and can't go upstream so we know what
> to bring forward
> 
> I'm currently planning to use the Launchpad bug tracker and some
> custom reports to manage this.  It's important that we don't lose any
> patches.

So git-based workflows won't benefit from this then?

> Does anyone else have similar requirements, use for such a tool, or
> know of tools that already cover this?

It would be very useful for tracking kernel/tools deltas in the Kernel and PM 
WG.
I know the Ubuntu Kernel team has expressed an interest in such a tool too.

/Amit

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