[oe] Getting patches committed

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 13:15:21 schrieb Philip Balister:
> On 01/21/2010 05:20 AM, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> > Am 21.01.2010 um 11:02 schrieb Holger Hans Peter Freyther:
> >>> 2. Is there a way to have a staging branch where all patches are
> >>> committed to, which have not been reviewed for let us say one week, to
> >>> get more testing and before they go into the dev branch? Maybe it is
> >>> easier for people to at least test build such a branch?
> >>
> >> Would you be interested in creating such a branch for us? I assume it is
> >> certainly easier to git cherry-pick a patch than to download the mbox
> >> and use git am..
> >
> > I fully agree. I'm neither using patchwork nor do I find patches on the
> > list a good idea. I'd welcome for-oe-upstream trees that would contain
> > patches that -- if good -- we could just pull from.
> 
> I actually like patches on the list, because it makes me aware of how is
> doing work and keeps me aware of the kinds of things people without
> commit access are interested in. Also, it gives people with commit
> access a forum for changes they would like reviewed.
> 
> I am not opposed to someone creating a git branch or branches created
> from list patches, but do not want to see the patches disappear from the
> list.
> 
> If the patch that was sent to the list comes from git-send-patch (I hope
> I hve that correct) there is a script contrib/patchwork/git-am.sh that
> makes it really easy to apply the patch.
> 
> Philip

I'm one of those without commit rights :)
And i think the problem is, that nobody feels responsible for the patches on 
patchwork. I know this situation from SHR patchwork, when you don't ask 
someone directly to commit a patch from patchwork, nobody will do it.
That's the only way it really works currently.
I have 4 people with commit rights i can ask, so i have no problems but others 
probably doesn't know someone...

I think a sort of moderator for patchwork is needed, that assosiats patches to 
the maintainer.

Thomas