On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:24 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 18 March 2011 23:29, Guilherme Salgado <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > I'm currently working on the PatchTracking[1] spec and, wrt patch > > series, I'm wondering whether you consider the patches that are part of > > a series to be separate or the series to be a single entity? > > Depends. By putting a patchset into a series I definitely mean > that in some ways it should be considered a single entity -- so > for instance in my list of pending qemu patches a series is a > single list entry, and generally they're semantically related > changes intended to be all applied together. On the other hand > sometimes you do want to think about the patches separately -- > sometimes patches 1,4,5 get reviewed OK and 2,3 rejected for > rework; occasionally a partial patchset is committed.
Fair enough. > So: a series is a single entity containing a lot of separate > patches; put another way, what's the purpose for which you > want to decide whether it's one thing or a whole pile? :-) That's to decide whether we should count the patches that belong to a series individually or not. -- Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>
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