Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Proposal: Improving patch tracking and review using Rietveld

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Anthony Liguori
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Patchwork is a nice tool but I found a few issues with it that really
> deterred me from using it:
>
> 1) it's all or nothing in terms of whether maintainers use it.  if everyone
> isn't on top of keeping it clean, you end up with a terrible backlog
>
> 2) it doesn't understand patches series.  A 20 patch series gets applied all
> at once, yet you have to update status for each patch.  That's annoying.

You shouldn't have to update patch status manually at all.  If there
is a manual step involved then it is unlikely that patchwork's view
will ever stay in sync with the actual repository.

Stefan