linaro-project-management team mailing list archive

[Mounir Bsaibes <mounir.bsaibes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:28:14 -0600, Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi James & Salgado,
> >
> > The PMs got together today and are a little lost on the process
> > surrounding patchwork.
>
> patches.linaro.org primary aim is to provide statistics on the number of
> patches sent/accepted upstream. In order to do this we need help from
> engineers to update status of their patches in the system so that the
> information is accurate.
>
> It may be that this system is useful for engineers/PMs/TLs to track
> upstreaming of patches. If so then that's great, but we haven't
> specified a process to do this as it's not the aim that we put the site
> together for.

The original proposal was to track and get stats
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/PatchTracking


> I would hope that the PMs help us create such a process if
> a team wants to track upstreaming using the tool.
>
> How can we help here, will  there be an education session about the tool?
what it does and how we can take advantage of it other see looking at the
stats?
>From what I saw  the stats  looks good  - thank you for getting it done -



> > Is there any specific process surrounding responses from upstream?
> > e.g. break the patch into multiple patches?
>
> There are several transitions that can be done in the system,
> e.g. accepted, rejected, superceded. I don't think there is one
> specifically for breaking up the patch. We will have some brief
> documentation on what the different statuses are for.
>
> > how does WI status change based upon reply? etc./
>
> I don't think that patches.linaro.org has any relationship to the
> workitems, so they should continue to change in the same way as before.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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