RE: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 5:26 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2024-04-23 11:08, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> Indeed.  Though Patchwork is another option for patch tracking, that
> >> glibc seem to be having success with.
> >
> > We tried this in gdb as well.  It was completely unworkable -- you have
> > to manually clear out the patch queue, meaning it's normally full of
> > patches that already landed.  I know glibc has success with it, but I
> > wouldn't consider it for gdb unless it gained some new abilities.
> 
> The thing that Gerrit excels at is tracking the different versions of a
> given patch, being able to easily diff versions, etc.  And then mark a
> patch as merged once it's committed to master.

FWIW, I think this is a very useful feature.  I used gitlab and github, too;
their revision tracking is far worse.

Regards
-Baris

> Patchwork doesn't have this capability built-in (AFAIK).  You can try to
> do some automation, but I doubt that any system based solely on getting
> patches from a mailing list can ever be as good as something like Gerrit
> for this.
> 
> Simon



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