[OE-core] Patchwork cleanup

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 September 2014 21:21, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've started running the patchwork post-receive hook manually and
>> marking as submitted many patches in the queue, but as there's 132
>> patches of patches still (down from 140-odd!) in an attempt to restore
>> sanity to the oe-core I think we should just mark as obsolete every
>> patch that was submitted before a cutoff date, say 1st January 2014.
>> Any thoughts?  As much as I'd love to ensure we didn't drop an
>> excellent patch from 2012, I'm not going to manually check all the
>> patches that the tool can't find automatically...
>
> I think its ok. Thanks for doing it.

As you have access to the server, do you think you could do this with
a carefully crafted bit of SQL directly to the database?  The
alternative would be to find the patch ID that corresponds to "a year
ago" and edit the state of every ID below that, which might take some
time...

Ross