Re: b4 review workflow issue with partially accepted serieses

Mark Brown <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jun 2026 23:44:50 +0100

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 10:01:44PM +0000, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> You can then review it again to take more patches or do anything else
> with a series that is being reviewed. If you take a subset of patches
> again, the series will go back to the "partial" state. If you take them
> all, it will go to "accepted".

> From the action menu a "partial" series offers everything a "reviewing"
> series does: take remaining patches, rebase, range-diff, upgrade to a
> newer revision, snooze, mark as waiting, abandon, archive, thank, etc.

I think that should mostly work - from the description the only thing I
can think would be an issue is that if I don't send a thanks mail the
submitter might not realise that some of the patches have been applied.
I'll give it a go next time the situation comes up.

> I also added a smaller bonus fix while I was in there: a "thanked"
> series can now be reopened back to "reviewing" via the action menu
> ("Return to reviewing"), in case something was thanked prematurely. The
> review branch is still in-tree for a thanked series so no reconstruction
> is needed.

I could use this for that purpose if it turns out there's an issue.

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