[oe] Patchwork access

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:42 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:40 AM, "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 19 June 2013 10:09, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> A few people have been asking for access to patchwork recently, and it seems
> >> like it isn't possible to create an account at the moment. Can we come up with
> >> a plan to solve this?
> 
> The patchwork has same issue as wiki w.r.t to spam and phony account creations,
> disabling the register page from active links reduces it tremendously. I will put interactions
> on wiki on how to still use it after register link is not shown. The functionality is still there
> but it can be seen on website.
> 
> > 
> > It's also sad that the oe-core patchwork isn't really usable as it's
> > not detecting patches that have been merged.  Who's the right person
> > to investigate this?
> 
> its a heuristic and best effort approach its not totally automatic. e.g. if V2 of a patch is send
> and V1 is still there then it might close V1 if hashes are same. OE-Core patchwork is mainly
> for reference as it was decided for cherry picking patches etc. for local use its not the patch
> management solution for OE-Core as much as it is for other layers in there.

FWIW I'm having a lot of local success with subject line (commit
summary) matching as I have a script which moves emails around IMAP
depending on the subject line being in the git repo. Its just a quick
hacky script though, nothing special...

Cheers,

Richard