Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:30:21 +0100 | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | Re: patch tracking tools (was Re: Maintainer abuse) |
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On 18/12/2014 14:25, Fam Zheng wrote: > > One thing that makes automation a bit easier for QEMU is that it does > > not have a merge window; while we do have a central committer that takes > > pull requests, the phases are a bit more traditional (2 month > > development, 2 weeks preparation for freeze, 1 month feature freeze). > > For Linux it would be more important for the tool to know which patches > > are for which tree, possibly based on the destination mailing lists. > > Things can be complicated, for example patch series dependencies. It's a > question to think about whether we need it to be complete or want to keep it > simple.
I think we want to keep it simple. Patch series dependencies complicate the job for the maintainer too.
Andrea Arcangeli reminded me later of the obvious: for Linux such a tool could simply use the linux-next tree as a base.
Paolo
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