Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark> See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30997
Mark> We really should automate this. There are several people running
Mark> scripts by hand. The easiest would be to simply run it from a git
Mark> hook.  patchwork comes with a simple script that just calculates the
Mark> hash and pings patchwork, which can then mark the patch associated
Mark> with that hash as committed. If people really believe calculating a
Mark> hash is too much work from a git hook then we can also simply run it
Mark> from builder.sourceware.org. We already run a builder for each commit
Mark> anyway. It would just be one extra build step checking the commit
Mark> against patchwork.

There's just no possibility this approach will work for gdb.  It can't
reliably recognize when a series is re-sent, or when patches land that
are slightly different from what was submitted.  Both of these are
commonplace events in gdb.

Tom
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