From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, sir@cmpwn.com
Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: thoughts on a Merge Request based development workflow
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:00:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhicqhzg.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191007.173329.2182256975398971437.davem@davemloft.net>
> Personally, I seriously want to change and move on from email, it's
> terrible.
FWIW, I maintain patchwork and I agree with this. Email suffers from a
gap between what can be comprehended by humans and what can be reliably
comprehened by machines.
For example:
- is a given series a revision of a previous series? Humans can change
the name of the cover letter, they can re-order or drop patches,
split and merge series, even change sender, and other humans just
figure it out. But if I try to crystalise that logic into patchwork,
things get very tricky. This makes it hard to build powerful APIs
into patchwork, which makes it harder to build really cool tools on
top of patchwork.
- what are the dependencies of a patch series? Does it need another
series first? Does it apply to a particular tree? (maintainer/next,
maintainer/fixes, stable?) This affects every CI system that I'm
aware of (some of which build on patchwork). Humans can understand
this pretty easily, computers not so much.
Non-email systems have an easier time of this: with gerrit (which I'm
not a big fan of, but just take it as an example) you push things up to
a git repository, and it requires a change-id. So you can track the base
tree, dependencies, and patch revisions easily, because you build on a
richer, more structured data source.
Kind regards,
Daniel
> I just want tools and pretty web pages, in fact I'll use just about
> anything in order to move on from email based workflows entirely.
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2019-09-24 18:25 Neil Horman
2019-09-24 18:37 ` Drew DeVault
2019-09-24 18:53 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-24 20:24 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-24 22:25 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-25 20:50 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-25 21:54 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-26 0:40 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-28 22:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-28 23:16 ` Dave Airlie
2019-09-28 23:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-01 3:22 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-01 21:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-09-29 11:57 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-29 12:55 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 1:00 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-30 6:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 12:55 ` Neil Horman
2019-09-30 13:20 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-09-30 13:40 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-30 21:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-09-30 14:51 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-30 15:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-30 16:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-30 20:56 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-08 1:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-09-26 10:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 13:43 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-07 15:33 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 15:35 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-07 16:20 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-07 16:24 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-07 18:43 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 19:24 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-07 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-07 18:40 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 18:45 ` David Miller
2019-10-07 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-07 21:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-07 23:00 ` Daniel Axtens [this message]
2019-10-08 0:39 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 1:26 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 2:11 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 3:24 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 6:03 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 10:06 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-08 13:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 18:46 ` Rob Herring
2019-10-08 21:36 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 1:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 16:43 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 17:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-08 17:39 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 19:05 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-08 20:32 ` Don Zickus
2019-10-08 21:35 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-09 21:50 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-10 12:48 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-09 21:35 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-09 21:54 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-09 22:09 ` Laura Abbott
2019-10-09 22:19 ` Dave Airlie
2019-10-09 22:21 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-09 23:56 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-10 0:07 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-10 7:35 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-10 12:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-10 14:21 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-11 7:12 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-11 13:56 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-14 7:31 ` Nicolas Belouin
2019-10-10 17:52 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-10 20:57 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-11 11:01 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-11 12:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-14 19:08 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 1:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-15 12:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-15 13:14 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 13:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-16 18:56 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-16 19:08 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-17 10:22 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-17 11:24 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-17 11:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-17 12:09 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-17 12:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-10-15 16:07 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 16:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-15 18:58 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 19:33 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 20:03 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-15 19:50 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-15 18:37 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-15 19:15 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-15 19:35 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 19:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-16 18:33 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-10-09 2:02 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-24 23:15 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-25 6:35 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-09-25 10:49 ` Neil Horman
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