On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:55 PM Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:57:21 +0800 > Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:43 PM Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:59:34 +0000 > > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 07:21, Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:51:02 +0100 > > > > > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 19/02/2021 17.26, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > > > > Does anybody use the ozlabs patchwork install for QEMU patches, > > > > > > > either occasionally or on a regular basis ? > > > > > > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/ > > > > > > > The admins for that system are trying to identify which of > > > > > > > the various projects are really using their patchwork instances, > > > > > > > so I figured I'd do a quick survey here. We don't use it > > > > > > > as an official project tool but it's certainly possible to > > > > > > > use it as an individual developer in one way or another. > > > > > > > > > > > > I think it might be used by some of the ppc hackers ... so CC:-ing > > > > > > to > > > > > > qemu-pcc ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I do on a very regular basis. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the reports. Do you use the features like assigning > > > > patches to people and changing patch status, or do you mostly > > > > just use it as a read-only archive-of-patches ? > > > > > > > > > > Only the latter but mostly because I don't have the permissions > > > to change status, e.g. when trying to change status of this > > > recent patch from Cedric to rearrange the PowerPC docs: > > > > > > You don't have permissions to edit patch 'docs/system: Extend PPC section' > > > > > > My understanding is that users must be "maintainer" to edit other's > > > patches. Only three 'maintainers' are currently listed at ozlabs for > > > QEMU: > > > > I can update my patch status in the QEMU project. I am not sure if > > this is due to I am a maintainer of another project hosted on > > ozlabs.org. > > > > Yeah everyone can update its own patches but you need to > be maintainer of a project to update the status of other's > patch for this project IIUC. >
Ah, I see, thanks. So the question is whether QEMU maintainers want to try the practice of using patchwork to help their maintenance work ... > > > > > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/1.0/projects/14/ > > > > > > We had a discussion about that a few months back with Christian > > > Schoenebeck > > > (9pfs maintainer, Cc'd) who also uses patchworks. It turned out we didn't > > > quite know how to go further because of lack of documentation, but I'd be > > > glad to experiment the full patchwork experience if someone knows how to > > > do it :-) > > > > I personally found patchwork is really helpful for mainatiner's work. > > But it looks the maintainers from the QEMU community do not use it. Regards, Bin
