Re: b4 review -- biggest pain points?

Mark Brown <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jun 2026 13:41:01 +0100

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 11:07:37PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> I finally have some cycles to get back to b4 development in a fuller
> capacity, so I'd like to do the next iteration of b4 review and b4 bugs
> features. I know some of you are using b4 review fairly regularly, while
> others have tried once and decided it's not working for them.

> What are the biggest pain points I should focus on? From my memory:

> - I know Mark sent quite a few bug reports and from talking to him I know that
>   huge series are problematic performance-wise.

FWIW probably the biggest single issue I have right now is that the
state machine around serieses can't cope with things being partially
applied.  This is a problem with things like picking bugfixes off the
start of serieses, or multi-subsystem serieses.

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