[coreboot] Patch management

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Mon Jun 1 15:31:06 CEST 2009


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 05:14:37PM -0400, ron minnich wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> > ron minnich wrote:
> >> > I would like to request a better patch management system than this
> >> > mailing list.
> >>
> >> it's a hard problem.
> > ..
> >> All in all, I think the process works.
> >
> > I don't, when patches are untracked and linger for however long until
> > the author or someone else sends a ping, at which point they may get
> > some more attention, or will just continue to linger.
> 
> all patches or some patches? Every time I svn, which is almost daily,
> there are changes.
> 
> Clearly, some patches are being reviewed and acked.

Most of them, yes.

I personally think our review/commit process is working very well. Sure,
sometimes patches take a little longer to review/test, but that's not a
problem of the process itself, it's simply because we have a limited
number of developers with a limited amount of time.

There is only one thing I suggest for improvement: if a patch doesn't
reveice answers (review, test, ack, nack) after 2 weeks or so, the
developer (or pretty much any user/developer on this list) should either

 (a) Post a *ping* mail, maybe the patch was just not noticed or forgotten
     and will then be swiftly reviewed/committed.

 (b) Add a trac issue, containing the URL to the mailing list post of
     the patch, so that it doesn't get forgotten.

Other than that, the process works just fine, and I strongly believe
that adding _more_ (web-based or other) tools in the mix will make
things worse, not better. We already have trac for issues, no need for
more tools.


Uwe.
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