Re: b4 review workflow issue with partially accepted serieses

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 04:25:12PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > OK, to help me properly model the workflow, is there ever a situation in which
> > you would:
> 
> > - accept patches 1-3 from v1
> > - request changes for patches 4-5
> > - wait for v2 with those changes
> > - apply patches 4-5 from v2
> 
> > In my mind, this was always a "send a follow-up series with just those 2
> > patches" -- should we even support the workflow as described above?
> 
> Yes, that's a thing that happens - usually in that case the early
> patches are bugfixes related to the work done to enable some new feature
> that is the main thrust of the series.  You can ask people to split
> things out and model it as two separate serieses but that's a bit of
> faff for something that's broadly a tooling issue.

Ok, thanks for confirming. So, a partially accepted series falls in these two
workflows:

- waiting for next revision; a v+1 should wake it up and put the series back
  into review mode; additional patches may be accepted from follow-up
  revisions (partial+more)

- done and dealt with, thanks sent, series archived; a v+1 should be
  completely ignored (partial+done)

I'll see if I can disambiguate these two workflows.

Thanks,
-K